MIX

Alone

Every channel of a cable at IN gets its own fader, up to fifteen, and OUT gives their sum through the master below them, as one mono channel. A sixteenth channel is left out. With nothing at IN and nothing bonded to take, the label reads NONE and OUT gives 0 V.

Each fader is a bar across the screen, and it shows two things. Its thickness is the level: drag up or down on the bar to set it, full by default and a hairline at nothing. Full is the signal as it came, and no fader or master goes louder; the sum is not clipped, so seven loud channels at full give a loud OUT. Its length is the signal: out from 0 V in the middle, left for negative and right for positive, a short tick in the middle while the signal rests at 0 V. The bar set apart below the fifteen is the master.

1. Levels one fader per channel, fifteen in all
2. Shift-click mute a channel
3. Master the level of the sum; Shift-click mutes it
4. IN a poly cable, or several stacked
5. OUT the mix

Stacked cables

Most inputs sum the cables stacked on them; the MIX gives each channel of every stacked cable its own fader. Three mono cables make a three-channel mixer with no merge module in between. The (s) after IN on the panel says cables stack there.

Bonded

In a rig, a MIX takes the modules of one kind to its left, a fader each, and sums them at OUT. By default it takes every module of the kind nearest its left, wherever they stand, so a MIX to the right of four SEQs mixes all four even with CVs between them. It takes up to fifteen, the ones nearest it, and the leftmost of them is the top fader.

The kinds it mixes are those that carry a sound or a voltage: SEQs, CVs, CRVs, and ATNs carrying a signal, that is with their IN arrow lit or a cable in IN. A SEQ stepping through TRGs carries triggers, so SEQs of triggers are a kind of their own. QNTs, TRGs, CLKs and ATNs that only set a range are passed over.

A module taken by a POLY or a MIX further left is not taken again; a module no one has taken yet is free. So a POLY and a MIX share a rig between them, as How rigs work shows. Other MIXes and POLYs are a kind too, mixed only once nothing else to its left is free: a MIX at the right end of CV, CV, MIX, CV, CV, MIX sums the CVs beside it, and a third MIX after that would sum the two sums.

The label at the top of the MIX names what it mixes. Drag the label up or down to choose another kind to its left, or one block of a kind: "CVs 2" is the second block of CVs from the left. Where there is more than one choice, arrows either side of the label step through them. While the pointer is over the label, an arrow marks each module it takes.

A cable in IN replaces the bonded modules on the faders; those modules can then go to a POLY or a MIX further right.

A super saw

Seven saws a hair out of tune with each other make one wide sound. Bond a CLK in Hz, set to the pitch; a CRV for the wave, whose straight line as it comes is a saw; seven SEQs, each playing that one CRV once a tick; and a MIX. Click each SEQ's pie to free its rate, and set the rates a little apart from the others, x0.99 to x1.01, so the seven drift against each other. The MIX takes the seven SEQs; bring their faders down to half, since seven full saws summed are loud.

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