Mixer
The mixer slides up from the bottom of the Grid. Click the Mixer handle (Open mixer (or drag up)) or the toggle in the ruler corner. It is a console view of everything that makes sound, and all of its processing runs in Plinken’s own audio engine — the same engine that is versioned with your project, so a mix sounds identical whenever you reopen it.
Sections
Section titled “Sections”The section bar at the top jumps to a group of strips; each group can collapse.
| Section | Strips |
|---|---|
| In | One mono strip per hardware input — see Hardware inputs |
| System | Piano, Plinky, Peers, Click, On Air — see System strips |
| Tracks | One strip per track in the Grid, in track colour |
| Subgroups | Sub 1 – Sub 8 — see Subgroups & FX returns |
| FX Return | FX 1 – FX 8 |
| Master | The stereo output, with the bus compressor and meters |
Strip controls
Section titled “Strip controls”From top to bottom a strip offers:
- Invert phase, Send to master sum (Σ — take the strip out of the main mix without muting it) and Low cut.
- Channel Settings opens the strip’s detail view.
- Subgroup buttons assign the strip to a subgroup.
- Gain (the printing input gain on input strips), Comp with a gain-reduction meter, and Balance.
- An SSL-style EQ with an E / G series switch.
- Aux sends, one per FX return, each switchable pre or post fader.
- Solo, Mute, the fader and peak meters.
The plugin chain for a track sits above its strip — see Plugins.
Fader, pan, mute and the plugin chain are shared with your peers as part of the project. Input strips and system strips are monitoring choices and stay local to your device.
This section is being expanded.