Mixer View¶

The Mixer View provides a channel-strip interface for balancing levels, panning, routing, and applying effects. Switch to it by clicking Mix in the footer bar.

Mixer View

Layout¶

┌──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Track 1  │ Track 2  │ Track 3  │ Aux 1    │ Master  │
│          │          │          │          │         │
│ [Routing]│ [Routing]│ [Routing]│ [Routing]│         │
│ [Sends]  │ [Sends]  │ [Sends]  │ [Sends]  │         │
│          │          │          │          │         │
│  ┃  ┃    │  ┃  ┃    │  ┃  ┃    │  ┃  ┃    │  ┃  ┃   │
│  ┃██┃    │  ┃█ ┃    │  ┃  ┃    │  ┃█ ┃    │  ┃██┃   │
│  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃    │  ┃█ ┃    │  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃   │
│  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃    │  ┃██┃   │
│  [Pan]   │  [Pan]   │  [Pan]   │  [Pan]   │  [Pan]  │
│  M S R   │  M S R   │  M S R   │  M S     │         │
│ Track 1  │ Track 2  │ Track 3  │ Aux 1    │ Master  │
└──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴─────────┘

Channel strips — One per track, scrollable horizontally
Aux channel strips — Auxiliary/bus tracks
Master channel strip — Final output, fixed on the right
Resizable width — Drag the edge of a channel strip to resize

Click a channel strip to select it. Drag plugins onto a channel strip to add them to the track's FX chain.

Toggle Rail¶

A vertical rail of toggles runs down the left edge of the mixer. Each button shows or hides a row across every channel strip, so you can pare the mixer back to just the controls you need:

Sends — the send section
I/O — input and output routing selectors
Monitor — input monitoring controls
Oscilloscope — a mini oscilloscope per strip
Spectrum — a mini spectrum analyzer per strip
FX Chain — the strip's mini FX chain

The rail's on/off state is remembered between sessions.

Channel Strip Controls¶

Each channel strip provides:

Volume Fader¶

Drag the fader to adjust the track's output level. The fader sits over the track's peak meter, with the current level shown as a dB readout below the thumb.

Level Meters¶

The peak meter sits directly behind the fader and shows the real-time signal level. A peak value displays the highest level reached — watch for clipping.

Pan¶

The pan control positions the track in the stereo field, from hard left to hard right.

Mute, Solo, Record¶

Mute (M) — Silence the track output
Solo (S) — Solo this track, muting all others
Record (R) — Arm the track for recording
Monitor — Enable input monitoring

Track Name and Color¶

The track name and color bar are displayed at the bottom of each strip for identification.

Mini FX Chain¶

With the FX Chain toggle on, each strip shows a compact version of the track's FX chain. Each device row surfaces a handful of its parameters as faders, so you can tweak an effect without leaving the mixer. Choose exactly which parameters appear per device from the Mini column in the parameter config dialog — if none are chosen, the strip falls back to the device's first visible parameters. Third-party plugins also show a button to open their own UI; native MAGDA devices do not.

Mini Analyzers¶

With the Oscilloscope or Spectrum toggle on, a mini analyzer appears on each strip that carries the matching device. Click the expand chevron to unfold its controls beneath the trace, or the pop-out button to open the full analyzer in its own floating window.

Master Channel Strip¶

The master strip controls the final output level of the mix. It has its own volume fader, meters, and pan control but no mute/solo/record buttons.

I/O Routing¶

Each channel strip has routing selectors for:

Audio input — Select which physical input or bus feeds the track
Audio output — Choose where the track's audio is sent (master, aux bus, etc.)
MIDI input — Select the MIDI input device and channel
MIDI output — Route MIDI to a specific device or virtual instrument

Sends¶

Each channel strip has a send section for routing audio to auxiliary buses. Show or hide it with the Sends toggle in the rail.

Add a send — Create a new send slot to route signal to an aux track
Send level — Adjust how much signal is sent to the aux bus
Remove a send — Click the remove button on a send slot to delete it

The send section sizes itself to the number of sends across your tracks, so every strip stays aligned.

Multi-Output Plugins¶

When an instrument has multiple output pairs activated, each output appears as its own channel strip in the mixer — just like any other track. You can route these strips to groups or aux sends independently. See Multi-Output Plugins for setup details.

DrumGrid Sub-Channels¶

When a track contains a DrumGrid device with multiple outputs, the mixer can expand to show individual sub-channel strips for each drum voice, giving you independent level and pan control per pad output. See Drum Grid for details.