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936 Chapter 39 Working in the Environment
The Mixer channel strips and Arrange channel strips are simply remote controls for the
underlying channel strip objects in the Environment Mixer layer. Their inclusion in these
other windows makes your workflow faster and easier.
As mentioned near the beginning of this chapter, the Arrange channel strips are cut
down versions of the corresponding channel strip objects in the Environment. The
channel strips shown in the Mixer window are more configurable, but the only place
you can access all channel strip options is the Environment Mixer layer.
Important: If File > Project Settings > Audio > Automatic Management of Channel
Strip objects is active (it is on, by default), you can not create channel strips in the
Environment. This setting, when active, means that use of the track and channel
creation options in the Arrange window will automatically create a corresponding
channel strip object in the Environment (and therefore, remote control channel strips in
the Mixer and Arrange).
In a general music-making sense, you will not need to access the underlying channel
strips shown in the Environment. In fact, the only time you will open the Environment
Mixer layer is when you need to reconfigure channel strips at a system level; re-routing
them to different audio hardware, or perhaps to other applications.
Although channel strip objects are not part of the MIDI signal flow, they still allow MIDI
messages to control aspects of audio and software instrument playback in Logic Pro.
Any MIDI object can be cabled into a channel strip object, thereby feeding control data
into it.
Channel Strip Parameters
When you click on a channel strip of any type (audio, instrument, aux, output, master,
and input or bus channels, discussed below), the following common parameters are
accessible:
Icon
Enable the checkbox to make the channel strip accessible in the Arrange Track
Assignment menu (Control-click the track list).
Choose the desired icon for the channel strip from the pop-up menu accessed by
clicking on the icon.
Device
Click the visible device name (CoreAudio, for example) to reassign the selected channel
strips to a different hardware device.