User Manual

1.13

Mixer

To control audio output, Notion provides an audio mixer. Created to resemble a hardware console, you

access this virtual mixing board by opening a separate window in either Edit mode or NTempo mode.

Open the Mixer

To display the Mixer window, complete one of the following:

8 Click the button at the left end of the toolbar, or

8 Press the Mixer open/close keyboard shortcut. Windows: Ctrl + / ; Mac:  + / ; OR

8 Go to the Menu bar and select View > Show > Show Mixer

The Mixer opens on your monitor in a separate window. You can hear how

changing the settings in the Mixer aect playback in real time.

You can move the Mixer around your monitor by dragging on its title bar. You can resize the

window east-west but not north-south. On a Mac, you can adjust its window size by dragging

its bottom right corner. In Windows, you can drag the right or left window edge.

Quick Tour

Details on the Mixer appear in Chapter 5. Its key components include:

A Each rectangular box in the mixer is a channel strip or bus strip.

B The most prominent feature of each channel strip or bus is a fader—a sliding volume

control—near the bottom.

C Individual instrument volumes, in stereo, with a peak meter using color-coded bars.

D Controls for panning (the relative left and right positions in stereo output).

A labeled view of the Mixer.

E Controls to quickly isolate (Solo) or silence (Mute) one or more instruments.

F Controls to send individual instrument sounds out to buses.

G Inserts for Virtual Studio Technology (VST) eects modules you own.

H Buttons to quickly nd specic groups of instruments and (on the right-hand side):

hide/show the buses and Master strip.

Advanced users can click Output buttons at the very bottom of channel strips to assign

instruments to separate digital channels when connecting a computer to

an external mixing board or production equipment.