Mixing Audio

Once you have all of the audio in the tracks of the Mix room, the next step is to mix all of the audio together. Creating your mix is the most important part of the process, and CyberLink AudioDirector provides several mixing tools to assist in the creation.

Mixer Panel

Click the button located in the top right above the timeline to open the mixer panel.

A - Audio Tracks in the Timeline, B - Audio Track Mode, C - Audio Track Balance, D - Audio Level Meter, E - Master Volume Control, F - Expand and Scroll

To use the mixer panel to mix your audio, do this:

each track in your Mix room timeline has corresponding controls in the mixer panel. If you cannot find an audio track, you can click and drag on the left edge of the mixer panel to expand it, or use the scroll bar at the bottom to find the track controls. The master track is always the last control (on the right) in the mixer panel.
to mix your audio, ensure that audio track mode R is selected for all the tracks that you want to alter the volume levels on. If R is not selected, you cannot change the volume level in that track.
ensure that audio track mode I is selected to lock any audio tracks whose volume levels you don't want changed.
click the play button and then use the master volume controls in each track to mix your audio.

Note: you can continually alter the volume levels on each track throughout the entire duration of the mix. When R is selected, CyberLink AudioDirector records and remembers the changes you made to the volume at each moment of your mix.

click the play button and then use the track balance controls in each track to pan the audio left or right in the mix.
ensure that audio track mode P is selected and then preview your mix by playing it back. This allows you to listen to and watch the recorded volume levels (and track balance) change.

Using the Mixing Tools

The mixing tools are available for each of the tracks in the mix room timeline, except the video and master track. The tools that are available are outline in the below table.

Mixing Tools

If required, click this button and select a label for the track. Select an icon that closely matches the type of audio in the track.

Click the colored square next to a track number to add a color label to the track. You can select one of the basic colors, or click in the color picker or use the slider to choose a color. You can also manually enter the color code in the HSB, RGB, or # fields to set the color. Once you set the color, click OK to close the Color Picker window. The color label is applied to the audio's wavelength and the mixer panel, so you can more easily identify the audio in your mix.

Click to enable this track for recording. Click the button at the bottom of the CyberLink AudioDirector window when you are ready to begin recording. You can enable multiple tracks at once. All their inputs will be recorded and added to the corresponding track, simultaneously. Click to configure the recording settings by selecting the import source for the recorded audio, and whether you want to monitor the input. See Recording Audio for more detailed information about recording audio in CyberLink AudioDirector.

Click this button to mute the corresponding audio track. If you only want to mute one single clip on an audio track, just right click on it and then select Mute Clip (or click on the selected clip).

Click the solo button if you only want to hear the audio in the corresponding track when previewing the audio mix. You can enable as many tracks as you want. All the tracks where is not selected are muted during the preview.

Click to modify the master volume for the audio file on the selected track using volume keys at specific points. See Adjusting the Master Volume for detailed information on modifying master volume keys.

Click to modify the balance of the audio file on the selected track by panning the audio left or right. See Panning Audio L/R for detailed information on panning audio.

Use the slider to the right of this icon to set the audio input level for the entire duration of the track.

Normalizing Audio Across Multiple Tracks

If you find that some of the audio in your mix is much louder than the audio on the other tracks, you can normalize the volume across multiple tracks. Normalizing is the process of applying a constant amount of gain to your mix to bring the average or peak amplitude (volume levels) to a same level.

To normalize the audio across multiple tracks, do this:

Note: this section is for normalizing the audio across multiple tracks in the Mix room. For information on normalizing the audio in the Edit and Restore rooms see Normalizing Audio Channels.

1.Select the all of the tracks in the mix that you want to normalize.
2.If required, use range selection to select the portion of audio you want to normalize. See Range Selection for more information on selecting a range of an audio file.

Note: be sure to select the entire audio file's waveform if you want to normalize the audio in the entire track.

3.Click the button to normalize the volume of the selected audio tracks.