Mixer

The Mixer tab stacks two racks. Channel strips for the playlists currently playing fill the top, and the three audio buses sit along the bottom.

The rack

Every playing playlist gets one strip. A strip shows the playlist’s cover art, falling back to its initial, then the playlist name and a chip for its playback mode. A second chip marks a playlist with crossfade enabled. When nothing is playing, the rack reads “Nothing playing. Start a playlist to see it on the rack.”

Two buttons sit on each strip. Stop all stops the playlist. Next track advances it to the next track.

The playlist fader

The fader on a strip sets the world mix for that playlist. Moving it sends the new level to every connected client at once and writes that level onto the playlist. Each track in the playlist then plays at its own volume scaled by the level. The level is applied again whenever a track starts, so it carries across track changes and reaches anyone who connects later. This fader is not a personal control: it changes what everyone at the table hears.

The strip meter

The meter on a strip reads the audio channel the playlist plays on. Two playlists assigned to the same channel therefore show the same movement.

The buses

The three buses are Music, Ambience, and Interface. They are Foundry’s core audio channels, and every sound Minstrel plays in Foundry runs through one of them. Syrinscape triggers play through Syrinscape’s own player and do not reach these buses.

A bus fader is a client-scoped core setting. It sets your own listening volume and changes nothing for any other user, so each person at the table sets their own.

The mute button stores the bus’s current level, drops the channel to zero, and disables the fader. Pressing it again writes the stored level back. That stored level belongs to the open console window. Close the console while a bus is muted and it comes back sitting at zero with the mute button off.

Bus meters read the core audio analyser, measured before your own bus volume, so moving a bus fader does not move its meter. A muted bus reads zero.