The Mixer

To see the mixer, chose "Mixer" from the navigation button on the transport. Each stack in the project gets its own mixer channel, with controls for choosing presets, as well as controls for audio mixing. There is also a "Master" mixing channel with some controls on the left side of the Mixer.

This chapter proceeds by discussing each item in a standard mixer channel from top to bottom, then covering the master channel.

Stack Name

The name of the stack for each mixer channel appears at the top of the channel, To the right of the name is a small button, this is the "edit" button. If you click it, it will take to the Rack and bring up the stack's modules for you to edit.

Preset Edit Buttons

Below the stack name are three buttons for managing stack presets:

• dup - duplicate the current preset
• snap - make a snapshot of the current preset
• del - delete the current preset

For more information on these functions, see the Presets chapter.

Preset List

Next is the preset list itself. This list is much smaller than the one that appears in the Rack: you only get to see the preset name and its color. However, in the Mixer, you can see the presets for all your stacks at once. This makes it easy to do live arrangements.

Audio & MIDI Input

Below the preset list are two menus for choosing the Audio and MIDI Inputs for the stack. Adjacent to the menus are small meters for audio and midi. The Audio meter is a pair of vertical bars. The MIDI meter is a group of four circles. Each circle will light up to indicate one of four categories of MIDI messages: notes, bend & aftertouch, controllers, and prog change.

Aux Sends

There are knobs here for each of the 8 aux sends for the stack. They operate the same as the aux send knobs on the Stack Output module.

Pan, Mute & Solo

Pan adjusts the relative signal strength of the right and left channels. Mute will mute both MIDI and audio output. Solo will mute all other stacks *except* for aux stacks. These controls also appear on the Stack Output module for the stack.

Bypass

This on/off button controls bypass for the entire stack.

Volume

Controls audio volume level for the stack. Stacks do not currently generate MIDI Volume messages.

Arrange Mode

This controls the arrange mode for the stack, for more information, see the Timeline.

Quantize Mode

Sets how preset changes are quantized in time. The default is for preset changes to be delayed such that they occur on "Bar" boundaries. You can change them to be quantized to a beat, or not at all.

Audio & MIDI Output

Menus for setting the audio and MIDI outputs for the stack. As with the inputs, there are mini-meters for the audio and MIDI signals.

Master Channel

As discussed in the chapter on Routing, there are two stereo mix busses that stacks can use to route their audio to the outside world. The master channel is where you set the audio outputs for those two busses. There are also faders, audio meters and mute buttons for each output.

Audio Recording

Both the main and alt mix busses can be enabled for audio recording via buttons in the master channel area. When recording is enabled, Numerology will record the audio for that bus while the transport is running. In order for recording to be enabled, the project must first be saved. Each time the transport is started, an new recording file is created. All audio is recorded to stereo AIFF audio files stored in an "Audio Recordings" folder. This folder is created within a "media" side-car folder created with the project file. You can adjust the bit depth of the recording using a menu in the Preferences dialog to either 16 or 24 bits.

Next : The Timeline