Mixer

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There are six stackable components that comprise the mixer-rack. You decide which are shown/hidden via the toggle controls to the right of the mixer:

• - Parameter labels below mini-sliders on DSP objects (“cutoff” etc. in the example above).
• - Mute / solo track controls.
• - Panning slider.
• - Level meter (and vertical volume slider).
• - Volume value box when Meter is shown, a slider when the meter is hidden.
• - The audio output control. If you’re using the Directsound driver, you can choose between the Master and your primary soundcard, but if you use the ASIO driver, you might have some other options as well:
  

You have two mixer options, the pre mixing panel and the post mixing panel:

The pre-mixing sliders have an automation indicator next to each automatable slider:

Those indicators are lacking in the post-mixer as post mixer sliders aren’t directly automatable.

Purpose of the Pre-mixer
The pre-mixer is equivalent to the Master DSP in all previous versions of Renoise. It is set as your default mixing control. You can control aspects of the pre-mixer through automation controls.

Purpose of the Post-mixer
The post-mixer is a new element in Renoise. It is a static mixer that allows you to control the overall output. When set to “Post”, the tracks cannot be affected by automation and pattern effect commands. Rather, the post controls are static for the duration of the song. These controls allow you to make adjustments to the overall output of each track after effects and other levels have been applied. Treat the post-mixer as another fixed Master-DSP effect statically attached in the DSP rack but on the right side of the rack.

One effect that you should bear in mind when using the post-mixer is the send-device, particularly when the Mute source option is toggled.
This is indicated by a white level-indication in the VU meter of the track that contains the send-device with this option.
The default colour of the VU meter is green with a red clipping top.
If the mute source option is toggled, the Post sliders will not affect the output of this track. You would have to set the post fader of its send-track instead if you want to influence that (or those!) particular track(s) which route to it.

Meter behaviour of post-mixer having a send-device muting its source

Toggling mixer components on/off allows you to free up space to display multiple DSP/VST effects. When the Meter is hidden, the volume control turns into a horizontal mini-slider.

The level meters display volume on one of three available scales: −24 to 0, −48 to 0 and −96 to 0 dB. Right click on the level meter to change the scale.

Note that the ruler markings and values will not change when you apply a scale other than −24 to 0 dB!

Attaching MIDI controllers to pre-/post mixer
You can attach MIDI controllers to the pre- AND post-mixer controllers.

There are two options: Either select View → Midi Mapping… in the title menu, or right click upon any of the effect frames in the DSP rack and select MIDI Map Parameters.

To remove the mappings, hit lshift-lctrl-del or just rightclick inside the effect rack of the mixer and click Init Settings.
Do take care that you have selected the right track and device in that track, also be aware that post-mixing attachment as well as pre-mixing attachments are both removed regardless wether you have selected the post or pre-mixer device.

Working with the DSP/VST/Device effects

Selection and alteration

If you add DSP devices to a track, they will be displayed in the mixer-rack in the black space above the stacked components.
You can monitor certain DSP/VST settings depending on what options you make visible in the device.

To have instant access to a specific effect, just click it once and the keyboard focus will shift to that object. Alternatively you can expand the effect-plugin’s module by displaying their parameters.
By right clicking an effect, you can select one or several of the desired parameters that you would like to alter.
When expanded, a tooltip shows the name of the parameter when hovering above the particular mini-slider.
Below are a few demonstrations of the above explanations:

Movement and duplication

Copying DSP/VST/Device effects between various tracks is easy using the mixer.
You can either drag and drop, or use the standard copy/paste key commands (ctrl-c, ctrl-x and ctrl-v). Quickly clone an instance of a device by holding down the control/command key and dragging it to the target track.

To copy complete chains, the shortcuts would be lshift-alt-c for copying the whole device chain and lshift-lalt-v for pasting the whole chain across the other track. Note: when copying across in this manner, your existing chain will be erased.
So if you would like to add existing devices from other tracks, then just drag/drop or copy/paste them.

!Note! : When copying or moving an effect from one track to another, the automation parameter envelopes attached to it will be discarded. So copy the desired envelope(s) to the clipboard if you want to duplicate or move them along

You can also save the complete chain to disk for later use.

Related topics
DSP-chain in general
Storing complete DSP chains on disk
Mapping midi parameters to sliders\\