6. the Mixer and Grid

Objectives of this lesson

How to work with effects in lines, aux busses and chains.

Setup audio input

First, add a bar recorder with a drag and drop from the browser like this:

In the menu that appears, choose open patch.

If you have a sound card with more than 1 input, open the global setup with [ctrl +F5].

Here’s an example of a multi input / output sound card in the global setup / asio tab.

If your sound card has only one input you can of course do this lesson too.

Now, under audio in, choose your inputs and activate them as you need:

Track input selector

You can now choose the audio in you need for each track:

And use the rec button to record a sound from your audio in:

Playing with lines

If you add a second bar recorder patch on both tracks you can choose which one is active by selecting the entire line with the small button on the left:

Note that only the active one shows a white square:

If you need more lines you can add some using the shortcut [ctrl + L ].

Auxiliary busses

To illustrate the auxiliary bus we need a third track, which we can add using the shortcut [ ctrl+T ]:

Auxiliary busses are useful when you want add effects like delay or reverberation effect on several tracks using only one instance of a VST plugin or patch.

Add a delay patch on track 3:

You’ll notice Usine has created a delay patch with all the classic delay parameters:

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Set this tracks audio in to aux1.

Now, you can activate the auxiliary for the track 1 with the on / off button and set the level you want to send to the delay.

Play with the aux send level and the parameters on the delay to adjust your sound to taste.

All mode

The Grid may also be used in all mode.

This mode allows all patches in a track to be played in the same time, allowing for example several sampler to be played in parallel.

An On/Off button is created for each patch so they may be muted individually in the chain.

There’s also the rack mode we have yet seen in 2. VST's & rack mode

Expand and minimize control panel

From time to time it’s useful to minimize / maximize a patches interface panel.

Usine has 2 shortcuts for this: [ctrl M]and [ctrl P]:

[ctrl M] minimize:

[ctrl P] maximize:

You can also minimize /maximize each panel individually with the small white square:

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