foreground data curve is subject to all clipboard operations, while the back page curve remains untouched. To update either the foreground or background view, click on the drop-downs, drag across the type field or channel and release the mouse on the highlighted desired item.

Flip View Button

This button swaps the Page and Back parameter views in the Mix editor. For example, if “Fader” is foreground and “Mute” is background, clicking on the flip button toggles the view to show “Mute” as foreground and “Fader” as background. Toggling the flip once more flips the view back to the original view of “Fader” as foreground and “Mute” as background.

Channel/Params Views

•When Params (Parameters) view is selected, the Mix Editor provides a view of a single parameter across multiple channels. The parameter is selected in the Page pull-down box.

•When Channel view is selected, you can view multiple parameters of a single channel. The channels are selected in the Page pull-down box, which include Channels 1-48, the Master Fader, Groups 1-8, Buses 1-8, Plug-ins 1-16, FX 1-16, Returns 1-8, and MIDI channels 1-8.

•The Back pull-down box allows you to view parameters for a different channel in the background for comparison.

The six buttons to the left of the Page and Back pull-down lists act as filters for parameter selection:

•When none of these six buttons is pressed, all data is displayed for the selected channel.

•Highlight the EQ button to display EQ data only.

•Highlight the Comp button to display compression data only.

•Highlight the Gate button to display gate data only.

•Highlight the FMP button to display fader, mute, and pan data only.

•Highlight the Busses button to display bus data only.

•Highlight the Auxes button to display aux data only.

These buttons can be selected in combination with each other. For example, to view EQ and compression data, simply highlight both EQ and Comp.

Edit Tools

Left-click on the Mix Editor tools to select them. At any time, right-click in the Mix Editor automation data to open a pop-up list for quick and easy selection of the desired Edit Tool (Crosshair, Hand, Magnify, or Eraser).

Pointer Tool (Hand Tool)

•Use this tool to enter new data nodes and to alter existing ones.

•While the Pointer tool is selected, press the Control key to momentarily select the Erase tool.

•The Pointer tool can create and move new or current automation nodes (curve turning points) while time code is being received (on the fly editing—before or to the left of the current time) or while time code isn’t being received (at any point on the timeline).

Shift+Pointer Tool

•With the Pointer tool selected, press and hold the Shift key and notice that the hand turns into a double-headed vertical arrow. This editing mode allows you to drag automation lines (and surrounding nodes) vertically without changing the time (horizontal value) at which the automation occurs. This is useful if you want to raise or lower a section of automation as a group.

•Shift+click an automation line to edit the line and the two nodes on either end of the line you click.

•If you select a region with the Highlighter tool first, and then hold the Shift key and edit with the Pointer tool, all nodes contained within the selection are edited as a group. Again, they are constrained to vertical motion only.

Highlighter Tool (Crosshair)

•Use this tool to select data by time and channel.

•Select the Highlighter tool and click and drag across a track to highlight a specific time region.

•Click on another track name field to move the current highlighted region (time segment) to the selected track.

•Click and drag across the top timeline bar to select specific sections of time across all tracks.

•Double-click on one track to select the entire 24 hours of data.

Note: You can select multiple adjacent channels (in Channel View) or multiple adjacent parameters (in Param View) by pressing the Shift key on the keyboard while clicking on tracks.

You can select multiple non-contiguous channels or parameters by pressing the Ctrl key on the keyboard while clicking on tracks.

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