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hello-there
Inspiring
June 14, 2020
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Mixing Channels in Multitracks

  • June 14, 2020
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Hello there!

I get a multitrack from PP where I'd like to mix the right and left channels of the thousands of audio snippets I get in a row.

 

However, it doesn't look like that at all https://helpx.adobe.com/de/audition/using/multichannel-audio-workflow.html

There is no "Source Channel Routing" in AU 13.0 2020 or I can't find it.

 

Any ideas how to mix a track?

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emmrecs
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June 14, 2020

That video is about multichannel audio mixing (e.g. for "Surround Sound", 5.1, 7.1 etc.) but you are asking about multitrack mixing (where the various audio constituents are placed on separate tracks, all of which "playback" in sync with each other, but which eventually require "mixing down" to a single, normally stereo track for final distribution.)

 

The question "how to mix a track" is a little bit like asking "How long is a piece of string"!

 

Have you first opened your PP multitrack project in the multitrack window of Audition?  Do you see all the tracks on screen?  Are those Audition tracks labelled as "mono" or "stereo"?  Have you explored the Mixer tab (on the multitrack window)?

 

Those are the places to "start" with any understanding of multitrack mixing.

 

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    hello-thereAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 14, 2020

    When exporting a sequence audio to AU, PP saves the clip audio snippets in WAVs, they are stereo. The sequence audio comes in a multitrack containing those clips.

    The mixer shows constantly the same level on both channels although the clip have different R and L channels - as I said stereo.

    I didn't find a Mixer "tab" neither a multitrack window. I've got a Mixer window in AU and an Editor for the multitrack. I can pan there for the output but not access the input channels.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 14, 2020

    If you've imported files from PP then you're in the Multitrack window. At the top of the part with all the tracks showing, there are two tabs, which let you alternate between the track display and the mixer display. We've called them all sorts of things, but never windows. They started out as panes, but now they are generally referred to as panels. The whole thing is a window, and each of the parts of it are panes or panels, and you can rearrange it however you like.

     

    I don't understand your obsession with 'input channels'. You are importing files, not channels - the concept of channels in this scenario doesn't exist. You have a file, you put it on one of the tracks on the edit screen and effectively it becomes a clip. In this session you can put any clip, mono or stereo, onto a track and either pan or balance it across the output.

     

    When you say 'mix the right and left channels' what do you actually mean? Technically doing that will make them mono.

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