Basic Mixing

• Metering in Ardour
  • Introduction
  • Meter Types
  • Ardour Specifics
  • Overview of meter types
• Meterbridge
• Signal Routing
  • Routing for audio tracks
  • Routing for MIDI tracks
• Bundle Manager
  • Creating a bundle
  • Connecting a bundle
  • Editing and deleting bundles
  • Reusing bundles
• Aux Sends
  • Adding a new aux bus
  • Adding a send to an aux bus
    • Pre-fader and Post-fader Aux Sends
  • Adding a new aux bus and sending a Track Group to it
  • Altering Send Levels
    • Using the Send Fader
    • Map Aux Sends To Main Faders
  • Disabling Sends
  • Send Panning
• Comparing Aux Sends and Subgroups
• External Sends
  • Adding an External Send
  • Removing an External Send
  • Altering Send Levels
  • Disabling Sends
  • Editing Send Routing
• Inserts
• Subgrouping
• Patchbay
  • Variants on the Patchbay
  • Other patchbay features
• Track/Bus Signal Flow
  • Overview
  • Strict I/O
  • Customizing the Signal Flow: The Pin Connection window
• Sidechaining
  • A simple example: Sidechain compression
  • MIDI Sidechaining
  • Pre-processing the sidechained signal
• Muting and Soloing
  • Without a monitor bus
  • With a monitor bus
  • Other solo options
    • Solo-in-place mute cut
    • Exclusive solo
    • Show solo muting
    • Soloing overrides muting
    • Mute affects…
• Panning
  • Types of Panners
    • Mono Panner
      • Mono Panner User Interface
      • Using the mouse
      • Keyboard bindings
      • Using the scroll wheel/touch scroll
    • Balance Control
    • Stereo Panner
      • Stereo Panner User Interface
        • Position vs. L/R
        • Examples In Use
          • Using the mouse
          • Keyboard bindings
          • Using the scroll wheel/touch scroll
      • []{#caveat}Stereo panning caveats
    • VBAP Panner
      • Basic concepts
      • Speaker layout
        • Experimental 3D VBAP {#experimental-3d-vbap .clear}
      • N:M panning {#nm-panning .clear}
    • Mixer Scenes
      • What mixer scenes can and cannot do
      • Storing a mixer scene
      • Recalling a mixer scene
      • Renaming a mixer scene
      • Clearing a mixer scene
      • Overwriting a stored scene
      • Accessing more mixer scenes
    • Saving and Importing Mixer Strips
      • Reusing Mixer Strips
      • Saving Mixer Strips
      • Importing Mixer Strips
      • Managing Mixer Strip Templates {#managing-strip-templates}
    • Loudness Analyzer and Normalizer
      • The Loudness Graph {#loudness-graph}
      • Normalization Parameters
      • Presets
      • The Conformity Analysis Panel {#conformity-analysis-panel}
    • Realtime Perceptual Analyzer
      • Adding sources to analysis
      • Reading the spectrum display
      • Removing sources from analysis
      • Real-time analyzer options
      • Controlling RTA performance