The Mix Editor, End to End

Every panel, every control, nothing skipped.

A complete tour of the multitrack editor. After this there is no button in the Studio you cannot explain.

Tracks and regions

The building blocks.

1. Track types: audio, MIDI, instrument and bus
2. Creating, duplicating and deleting tracks
3. Region editing: slice, trim and fade
4. Looping regions and the playback cycle
5. Organising a session: names and colours
6. Rebuild a session from parts

Timing and tempo

The grid and how to bend it.

1. Tempo, time signature and the click
2. Tempo changes within a song
3. Quantising, humanising and swing
4. Time-stretching without artefacts
5. Fixing timing in audio recordings
6. Timing check

Signal flow

Where the audio actually goes.

1. Inserts and sends
2. Buses and subgroups
3. The master: the last step before the speakers
4. Parallel processing in BandLab
5. Build a parallel drum sound
6. Mix editor final