The master mixer and controlling signal flow

The exercise in the last section demonstrated how to add and combine effects on a mixer group. You learned that the order of effects on a group is important to how the audio is processed. This also applies to how audio is routed through the mixers. At the top of every mixer is always a Master. In order to simplify our understanding of mixers, we named our primary mixer asset Master.

However, this doesn't have to be the case and we will conduct an exercise to demonstrate this further:

  1. Click on the plus icon beside the Mixers element at the top of the Audio Mixer window. Rename this mixer Music and then select it; your view should be similar to the following screenshot:
Creating a new mixer asset ...

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