3 <img src="/images/foldback-gui.png" alt="The Foldback strip">
10 The <dfn>Foldback section</dfn> is an optional feature that provides stage monitoring mixes.
11 Many times the main mix is used for this purpose is a setup with only the control room. However,
12 for a separate studio and multiple monitor mixes for in ear use, a separate set of foldback
13 buses provides that flexability.
16 These foldback buses may be mono for a stage monitor wedge or stereo to allow
17 inear or headphones to have different mixes for each ear, such as one's self in one
18 ear and the rest of the music in the other.
21 A foldback mixer strip can be created on the fly by creating a Foldback Bus in the same manner
22 as any other bus is created, from the
23 <kbd class="menu">Track > Add Track, Bus or VCA</kbd> Window. Once at least one
24 Foldback bus has been created, the Foldback strip will appear in the mixer window
27 The <kbd class="menu">View > Mixer: Show Foldback Strip</kbd> checkbox will determine if the
28 Foldback strip is visible. The Foldback strip appears Just to the left of the Master strip in the
29 Mixer window. It comprises:
32 <li>Previous and Next buttons</li>
33 <!--li>Detach/attach control. This separates the Foldback strip into its own floating window</li-->
35 <li>Foldback bus name button</li>
36 <li>Invert button</li>
37 <li>Show sends button</li>
38 <li>Send controls</li>
39 <li>Bus pan control</li>
40 <li>Processor box</li>
41 <li>Listen button</li>
42 <li>Foldback bus level control</li>
43 <li>Foldback bus output routing</li>
44 <li>Comments button</li>
47 <h2>Previous and Next</h2>
50 The Previous button shows the previous Foldback bus in the Foldback strip.
51 The Next button shows the next Foldback strip. The button will be disabled
52 if there are no nore Foldback buses in that direction.
57 The hide button hides the Foldback strip when not being adjusted.
58 The Foldback strip can be shown again from the main menu
59 <kbd class="menu">View > Mixer: Show Foldback Strip</kbd> item.
64 The name button shows the name of the current Foldback bus. It has two
65 menus the Foldback bus selection menu, activated with a mouse button 1
66 click and the context menu, activated with a mouse button 3 click. The
67 context menu has these items in it:
70 <li><kbd class="menu">Comments</kbd> is the same as the Comments button
71 at the bottom of the strip</li>
72 <li><kbd class="menu">Outputs</kbd> shows the output routing grid</li>
73 <li><kbd class="menu">Save as a template</kbd> opens the template save
74 dialog. The template saved has the same number of channels and the same
75 processors but does not have any sends selected.</li>
76 <li><kbd class="menu">Rename</kbd> shows a rename dialog that allows the Foldback
77 bus name to be renamed</li>
78 <li><kbd class="menu">Active</kbd> toggles The active status of the current
80 <li><kbd class="menu">Protect Against Denormals</kbd> turns on denormal
81 protection for the current Foldback bus</li>
82 <li><kbd class="menu">Remove</kbd> will remove the current Foldback bus</li>
85 <h2>Invert Buttons</h2>
87 The invert buttons (one for each channel) invert the audio signal. This
88 may be useful in some situations for controlling feedback. However,
89 proper microphone and monitor placement or the use of head phones
90 or in ear monitoring will be more effective.
95 Show sends allows the send levels and pan to be controlled from the
96 originating track by using the main fader for the track. The fader and
97 pan controls will change color to indicate this mode and the show sends
98 button will flash to indicate this mode. Changing the current Foldback
99 bus will disable this mode.
102 <h2>The Send Box</h2>
104 The send box shows controls for each send. There is a context menu available
105 by clicking mouse button 3 anywhere in the send box.
108 <li><kbd class="menu">Assign Selected Tracks</kbd> creates foldback sends on each
109 selected track that feed the current Foldback bus</li>
110 <li><kbd class="menu">Assign Selected Tracks and Buses</kbd> creates foldback sends on each
111 selected track and bus that feed the current Foldback bus</li>
112 <li><kbd class="menu">Copy track/bus gains to sends</kbd> Sets the gain on the send to be the
113 same as the gain of the track or bus the send comes from for the current
115 <li><kbd class="menu">Set sends gain to -inf</kbd> sets the gain on all sends
116 for the current Foldback bus to -inf (the lowest gain possible)</li>
117 <li><kbd class="menu">Set sends gain to 0dB</kbd> sets the gain on all sends
118 for the current Foldback bus to 0dB</li>
121 <h3>The Send Control Block</h3>
123 <img src="/images/foldback-send.png" alt="The Foldback send">
126 There is a send control block for every send to the current Foldback
127 bus. The Send control block features three controls:
130 <li>The button which shows the Foldback bus' name, has an active "LED"
131 indicator and has a context menu (mouse button 3) with items for that
133 <li>The knob, only present on a stereo Foldback bus, which controls
135 <li>The horizontal slider which control the level input from that channel</li>
138 The button LED can be clicked to enable or disable that send, the button
139 context menu is similar to the send box above but only for this send. It
140 also has a remove option to remove this send from the current foldback mix.
143 <h2>The Pan Control</h2>
145 This is just like every other track or bus strip and works the same way.
148 <h2>The Processor Box</h2>
150 This processor box is the same as on the other tracks and buses and allows
151 for adding things like reverb to the foldback mix without writing it to the track.
152 It would also be possible to add in sound from a reverb bus instead.
155 <h2>The Listen Button</h2>
157 This is only available in PFL or AFL mode as it uses the same code as
158 the solo on other tracks and buses. It allows the control room monitor
159 or headphones to hear what the performer will hear in their monitor.
162 <h2>The Foldback Level Knob</h2>
164 This controls the output level being sent to the stage monitor.
167 <h2>The Output Port Selector</h2>
169 This is similar to the output selectors on the tracks and buses. It
170 differs in only a few ways. First it is never automatically connected.
171 A Foldback bus is always meant to be directly connected to an output
172 device and never to master or the monitor bus. The choices shown
173 Therefore reflect this.
175 <h2>The Comment Button</h2>
177 Just like the track and bus comment button, this allows opening a
178 window to type in notes about the current foldback bus for future