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December 5, 2018
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CS6 - how to place mixer below multitrack editor on same screen?

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Hi -

On Audition 3.1 on PC it was very easy to have a mixer panel below the multitrack editor panel; and then to resize the height of either panel on an as-needed basis.

I'm now on CS6 (I will upgrade to CC at some point ) - but - for ages - I haven't been able to achieve placing a mixer panel below the multitrack editor panel (merged). I can only have them as separate panels; and if merged, side by side.

I'm not expert on the whole undocking panel feature - I really struggle with it to be honest.

In a nutshell - I want to undock the multitrack editor and mixer panels, and re-merge them with the mixer below the multitrack editor, so that I can manually resize their vertical panel size  using the yellow dividing line, on an as-needed basis - my preferred way of working

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin Nolan,

Dublin.

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    Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

    You can't quite do it the way it worked before, but you can get close. You have to undock the mixer panel, and then pick it up by it's name (in the corner). You can now roll it around the editor screen, and you will notice that this goes purple in different places when it lands on them. If you drop it when the bottom of the screen is purple, and let go there, you'll have the mixer directly under the editor. Where it's different is that you can't resize both together, like you can with the Waveform and spectral displays. The reason for that is that the editor screen has its own expand/contract control, and this wouldn't link easily to the frame size control. The mixer expands and shrinks to a degree, though.

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community ExpertCorrect answer
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    December 5, 2018

    You can't quite do it the way it worked before, but you can get close. You have to undock the mixer panel, and then pick it up by it's name (in the corner). You can now roll it around the editor screen, and you will notice that this goes purple in different places when it lands on them. If you drop it when the bottom of the screen is purple, and let go there, you'll have the mixer directly under the editor. Where it's different is that you can't resize both together, like you can with the Waveform and spectral displays. The reason for that is that the editor screen has its own expand/contract control, and this wouldn't link easily to the frame size control. The mixer expands and shrinks to a degree, though.

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    knolan012Author
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    December 6, 2018

    Steve - Thanks SO much for your guidance - I now see where I can re-anchor the mixer to the bottom of the (purple) multitrack editor! Brilliant (you've no idea how many times I've tried this!). Easy when you know how :-)

    But - Steve - I find that I CAN resize the relative height of the Editor and Mixer panels - where by of the mixer is small the volume faders become knobs, and if I heighten that panel they become faders - exactly as with 3.1 !

    Perhaps I've done something slightly different (on your advice) to what you're thinking - but - you have solve my long standing issue.

    Thanks You!!

    Best regards,

    Kevin.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    December 6, 2018

    knolan012  wrote

    But - Steve - I find that I CAN resize the relative height of the Editor and Mixer panels - where by of the mixer is small the volume faders become knobs, and if I heighten that panel they become faders - exactly as with 3.1 !

    The mixer (well the faders...) shrinks and expands, but whilst the editor's expand/contract control on the RHS moves as though it's supposed to shrink and expand tracks, the tracks themselves don't. But this is on the current release, and it could possibly be construed as being a bug... I will inquire!

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