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4 mixer toolbar and utility panel, Reset mixer, Add aux – FXpansion BFD2 Manual User Manual

Page 55: Remove aux, Fx power, Mixer view switches

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3:4 Mixer toolbar and utility panel

Reset Mixer

Clicking the Reset mixer button resets all channel settings to their defaults, as well as removing any loaded FX and
send settings completely. You are asked for confirmation before you can continue.
If there are any unused channels in the current mixer, BFD2 also asks if you would like to remove them. Unused
channels are kit-piece direct channels that are not being used by loaded kit-pieces or by bleed signals from other kit-
pieces.

Add Aux

Clicking this button addds a stereo aux channel to the mixer. If you need a mono aux channel, click the mono/stereo
button on the aux channel after it is added.
If you select one or more channels in the mixer and then click the Add Aux button while holding down the ALT key, an
aux channel is created and the output routing of the selected channel(s) is set to this new aux channel.

Remove Aux

To remove an aux channel from the mixer, first select the channel it, then click this button.

FX Power

The FX Power button is a global power button for all FX currently loaded into the mixer’s channels. It operates in addi-
tion to the power buttons on each FX slot. Therefore, after turning the FX Power off and on again, any Power settings
that previously existed remain untouched.

Mixer view switches

The switches at the bottom of the toolbar alter the appearance of the mixer in various ways.

Signal

The Signal view switch toggles the overlaid signal routing indicators which visually indicate output, send and
sidechain routings.

Amb

This view switch toggles the visibility of ambience channels in the mixer.

Direct

This view switch toggles the visibility of direct mic channels in the mixer.

Aux

This view switch toggles the visibility of aux channels in the mixer.

Utility

The Utility view switch toggles visibility of the Utility panel (containing the Mic Tools, Sends inspector, mixer preset,
audio export and kit-piece inspector panels).

FX/Sends

The FX/Sends view switch toggles the channel FX and sends controls. It is not strictly necessary to use this view, as
the selected channel’s FX are shown in the FX rack and its sends settings are shown in the Sends inspector. How-
ever, this view is useful for an overview of FX and sends settings across all channels, as well as providing access to
the main and sidechain input trim controls.