Preset Toggle Buttons

The preset up/down arrow buttons enable you to scroll up or down through either the factory or user presets. These toggle buttons are located just to the left of the Preset window.

Preset Title Window

The Preset Title window displays the currently selected preset. This window is located at the top of the control bar. Click on it to access the pull-down menu where you can choose between factory or user presets.

Memory A/Memory B

The Mem A and Mem B buttons temporarily store Final Mix settings to allow comparative referencing. You can also copy and paste settings from one memory location to another using commands found on the menu.

Menu

Pressing the MENU button opens a pull-down menu that performs familiar functions:

About Final Mix: Opens a window that shows the version number and copyright information.

Undo: Undo the previous action.

Redo: Redo the previous undo.

Load Final Mix: Loads a previously saved preset file.

Save User Preset As...: Saves a Preset to the hard drive with a new file name.

Save User Preset: Saves changes to the current preset to the hard drive.

Reset Final Mix: Resets all the settings in Final Mix to the current preset values.

Cut Final Mix: Copies all the settings to the clipboard and resets them to their default values.

Copy: Copies all the settings to the clipboard, leaving the settings as they are.

Paste Final Mix: Copies the settings from the clipboard to the current Final Mix window.

Note: Cut/Copy/Past are useful for changing MEM A and B to identical settings.

L/R Input and Output Clip LEDs

The two small boxes at the top of the input and output meters are the clip LEDs. The clip LEDs light if the signal goes above 0 dB. Avoid lighting the OUTPUT clip LEDs. When rendering to disk at either 24-bit or 16-bit, any clips will be written to the file.

You can generally get rid of clipping by backing off the input or output faders slightly, or by engaging the SOFT CLIP button (see page 18). Actually, because Final Mix uses 32-bit floating point internal processing, the signal does not clip internally within the plug-in. However, to maintain a reasonable gain structure and avoid clipping elsewhere in the signal chain, avoid running the signal up above 0 dB.

Link

The LINK buttons link the Left and Right input faders or the Left and Right output faders so they can be moved simultaneously. If the faders have an offset when link is engaged, they maintain that offset.

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