


Mono tracks show in both track meters, as in the Meter Toolbar. The meters are post-fade, like the Meter Toolbars, such that they show the levels as modified by the track's gain/pan sliders and mute/solo buttons. For example, muting a track in the Mixer Board also mutes that track in the main tracks window.Īs in the Track Control Panels, double-click in either Mixer Board slider to enter an exact gain or pan value in a text box. This allows you to more easily experiment on a visually "clean" track by adding extra points while still being able to use the Mute or Solo buttons to compare with the original unrendered track.All Mixer Board controls update the controls in their respective Track Control Panels and vice versa. As an alternative you could Tracks > Mix > Mix and Render to New Track which lets you render to a new track without envelope points but keep the original track with its envelope points. Naturally you can always add further control points later on, or get all the original control points back by undoing the Mix and Render if you are not happy with it. The resulting track will sound the same but will no longer have its amplitude envelope control points. This option is sometimes called Bounce in other software. To do this, select the track you are finished with and click Tracks > Mix > Mix and Render.

The volume is directly proportional to the height of the waveform - the smaller you make the waveform, the quieter it will sound:Ī lot of volume changes can make a track more cumbersome to work with, so sometimes when you are sure you have got them right, you may want to replace the original track and its control points with a new track that has the envelope changes rendered to the waveform and thus has its control points removed. The volume is made to diminish slowly and then to grow again much faster (note the much steeper slope of the blue line). Here's an example of an amplitude envelope applied to the track. Dragging an inner handle allows you to amplify a quiet piece of audio beyond the original volume envelope of the track. Each control point is visible by its four handles (the small circles in the image below), by which you can drag the point up or down to control the volume level.ĭragging either the top or bottom handle ensures you can never distort the track by dragging outside its original volume envelope.

Now has a thick blue border at the top and bottom of the waveform, like this:Īn amplitude envelope is manipulated by a number of control points. When you select Envelope Tool from the Tools Toolbar, your track, which normally looks like this:
