Band-in-a-Box 2021 New Feature - Mixer Improved

The floating Mixer can be resized vertically.  Horizontal resizing is less limited, which allows it to be more compact.

When it’s the smallest, it still retains some very useful functions like displaying the master VU meter or allowing the master volume control for the current song or all songs.

The Mixer can be embedded in the main screen and is horizontally resizable to allow more room for the Chord Sheet, Notation, Piano Roll, or Audio Edit window.

In the normal screen mode, the embedded Mixer can be positioned at the top right of the screen or the bottom right.  You can set this with the “Embedded Mixer Top Right” option in the Settings tab.

You can select the tracks to display in the Mixer.  Click on the “eye” button at the bottom right corner and check the tracks to display.

The Mixer can scroll visible track panels.  Use the arrow buttons at the bottom right corner, or the mouse wheel if it is not used for controlling sliders and dials.

The Mixer automatically shows active tracks and hides unused tracks when playback starts.  You can set this with the “Auto Show/Hide Tracks When Starting Playback” option in the Settings tab.

When resizing the window, the track panel height will be restricted to the customized settings.  For example, if the maximum panel height is set to a low value, then when you expand the window, there will be black portion below the track panels, but if it’s set to a higher value, then when you expand the window, each track panel will be stretched to fill the window.

A Settings tab is added to set options for the Mixer.

You can set Volume and Panning to display as decibels instead of MIDI values.  This makes sense when you are mostly dealing with RealTracks, RealDrums, and audio tracks.  To display as decibels for all tracks, enable the “Display dB Instead of MIDI Volume” option in the Settings tab.  To set for each track, right-click on a track and select Track Settings | Display dB Instead of MIDI volume.

The Mute and Solo states of each track will be saved in the songs and will be loaded the next time you open the songs.  This behavior is controlled by the “Load Mute and Solo States with Songs” option in the Settings tab.

You can use the mouse wheel to control sliders and dials if you enable the “Allow Mouse Wheel to Control Sliders/Dials” option in the Settings tab.  Hover a mouse cursor over a slider or dial, and move the mouse wheel to change the value.

You can double-click on the track label to rename it.