The mixer

Sliders and keys

Every fader and slider works the same way, with a mouse, a finger or the keyboard.

Mouse and touch

Do this	And
Click anywhere on the track	The slider jumps there, and you can keep dragging.
Tap the track with a finger	The slider jumps there. Swiping across it scrolls the page.
Drag the handle	It moves from where it is, as far as you drag.
Double-click	Back to rest: see the table below.
Turn the mouse wheel	Small steps, once the slider has focus (click or Tab to it).

Only the main mouse button moves a slider, and a slider only moves the way you drag: pressing and holding without moving never changes a level.

Caution: A press jumps straight there

A stray press high on the monitor or headphone level is a sudden loud jump. Drag the handle when you’re not sure.

The mouse wheel only moves a slider you’ve clicked or tabbed to, so scrolling down the page never changes a level.

Tab to a slider, then:

Key	Faders and sends	Pan	Gain	Monitor, headphones
`→` or `↑`	+0.5 dB	1 right	+0.5 dB	+0.5
`←` or `↓`	−0.5 dB	1 left	−0.5 dB	−0.5
`Page Up`	+3 dB	10 right	+3 dB	+5
`Page Down`	−3 dB	10 left	−3 dB	−5
`Home`	Off (−∞)	Full left	0 dB	0
`End`	0 dB	Full right	Nothing	Nothing
Double-click	0 dB	Centre	0 dB	0

Tip: End never turns anything up to full

On a fader, End goes to 0 dB, wherever you start. On the monitor and headphone levels it does nothing.

Display brightness, in Settings, moves 1% with the arrows and 10% with Page Up and Page Down. Home turns the display off.

The top of a fader runs evenly from −40 to +12 dB, where you do most of your mixing. Below −40 it’s squeezed down to off.
It catches at 0 dB: anything within about half a dB snaps to it.
From off, the first step up lands on −60 dB.

Tab moves through each strip in order: the gear, tone, 48V, fader, then mute, solo and link.
Space or Enter presses a button.
Esc closes Settings or a channel’s settings.
Screen readers hear each slider’s name and value, such as “Vocal mic level, minus 6.0 decibels”.