Adobe 22011292 User Guide - Page 261

ADOBE AUDITION 247 User Guide Track Controls set to the Bus Tab Note: The Wet/Dry Fields only appear in the Bus area. Mix Gauge The Mix Gauge (which is located underneath the Track Controls of the bottommost viewable track) indicates how much background processing Adobe Audition has completed. It can be thought of as a fuel tank gauge, except that instead of fuel, it measures how much processing needs to be carried out by Adobe Audition "behind the scenes". The further that the Mix Gauge's green bar progresses to the right, the more processing has been done to complete the current mixing tasks. Once the processing has been completed, the bar lights up to a bright shade of green, which means that the entire session has been fully mixed. The Mix Gauge Some notes about the background mixing process: Mixing involves combining all of the placed waveforms into two (or more) channels for output. Because you can edit, add, and subtract waveforms in the multitrack environment, Adobe Audition must constantly watch for changes to the multitrack session, such as a moved or deleted waveform, a volume change, or new material recorded into a track. When something is altered, Adobe Audition has to immediately work that change into the mixed output, and it does so through background mixing. Background mixing occurs behind the scenes much of the time that you're in the multitrack environment, and is generally very fast. The faster your system - especially your CPU and hard drive(s) - the faster Adobe Audition can mix in the background. The mix progress meter constantly shows how far along Adobe Audition in the process of mixing your session.