Mixer Operation with Mouse and Keyboard

Operation with the Mouse

Mouse wheel: Move the mouse pointer over a control and turn the mouse wheel to change the value. For finer value changes additionally press the Shift key, for larger value changes press the Ctrl key.

Click and drag: The simplest and most intuitive way to operate, as with any graphical interface, is to simply click to toggle functions and drag to change values. However, there are a few special features:

  • The accuracy of setting the Level Fader is infinitely variable: Click on the fader and move the mouse pointer to the left or right of the fader while holding down the mouse button, and only then drag the mouse up or down. The farther the mouse cursor is from the selected fader, the smaller the change in value will be.

  • Knobs (pots) can be adjusted in two different ways: The default behavior is that you click the knob and move the mouse around it to change the value. Alternatively, you can set the pots to behave like sliders, i.e. you can drag the mouse up and down. (at Program settings > Keyboard/Menu/Mouse > Mouse)

Click on value range: Clicking the range below/above sliders and left/right of knobs decreases/increases the value step by step. If the mouse button is held down, the value will continue to change until you release it. The longer you hold down the mouse button, the faster the value changes.

Double-click on numbers: Opens a numeric input field.

Double-click on control elements: Sets the control element to the preset value. Double-clicking again sets the value back to the altered value again.

Right-click on control elements: Accesses either a context menu for the corresponding control element or a dialog with additional settings options.

Keyboard Operation

The Mixer can also be operated completely with the keyboard only:

Arrow keys: Use the arrow keys to move between controls and activate the selection of a control. With Shift + Arrow right/left you can extend the selection with further similar controls on other tracks if necessary (see below).

You can also switch between adjacent controls on the same track using the up/down arrow keys. Arrow right/left always changes to the adjacent track.

Page up/page down: changes the value of the active control. For finer value changes additionally press the Shift key, for larger value changes press the Ctrl key.

Home: sets the control to its default value. If you press the Home key again, the element will be reset to the previous value.

End: This function corresponds to clicking with the right mouse button, i.e. it opens a settings dialog or a menu.

Enter key: opens the numeric input field for a value, switches and opens menus, depending on the selection.

For Plug-in slots

  • Enter opens the plug-in browser

  • Del deletes a plug-in from the slot.

  • Ctrl + C copies a plug-in.

  • Ctrl + V pastes a copied plug-in. If an occupied slot is selected during insertion, the plug-in is inserted before it.

Select and Group Multiple Controls

You can select multiple controls. First click on a control to select it. Now click on other individual controls with the Ctrl key held down to add them to the selection. A click with held Shift key adds all controls between the last selected and the clicked one.

Controls selected together are changed together when one of the controls involved is changed.

With Ctrl + Shift + Click on a knob or fader you reverse the behavior of the corresponding fader or knob within a multiple selection. It then moves in the opposite direction to the others in the group and when it is moved, the others move in the opposite direction. For example, this feature is useful for moving two grouped faders in opposite directions with a single mouse movement, or for controlling the opposing movement of the panorama controllers on two tracks simultaneously.

To operate a control element that is part of a multiple selection or group individually, click and drag it while holding the Alt key.

Shift + Double click (Keyboard: Shift + Pos1) on a control sets all controls of the selection to the value of the clicked control.

As soon as you click on a control element that is not part of a multiple selection, the multiple selection is cleared. If you always want to adjust certain controls together, you can keep the multiple selection by grouping the controls together.

Use the first button to group selected controls in the mixer, and the second to ungroup them.

Note: There is, independent of the grouping in the mixer, also the possibility to select several tracks and group them. In such a multiple selection/grouping of tracks, all controls of the tracks are moved together. If this affects controls that are also grouped in the mixer, this grouping is ignored.

In the mixer, tracks can be selected by clicking on the track name (in the channel below above the output routing) or the track number (below the pan slider).

Drag & Drop

  • Drag and drop of the tracks/channels: You can rearrange the order of the tracks by clicking and dragging on the track number or track name.

  • The plug-in slots provide drag-and-drop functionality for copying or moving effects to another track:

    • The sequence of effects for VST plug-ins can be changed within the slots of the track using drag & drop.

    • A plug-in can be moved to another track via drag & drop. It is always inserted at the end of the plug-in chain, regardless of whether you drop it on an occupied slot.

    • Drag & Drop with additional held Ctrl key copies a plug-in to another track.

    • Drag & drop of the Plug-ins button to another track transfers the contents of all plug-in slots to that track.

    • Plug-ins can be dragged from the dockable Plug-in Browser window directly to a plug-in slot in the mixer.

  • The Equalizer settings can be transferred by dragging & dropping the EQ button.

  • Drag & Drop the FX button: Dragging an FX button (at the bottom of the track under the peak meter) to another track will transfer the entire FX routing (effects, AUX positions...).