19. Mixing

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Each part has volume (0 to 1) and pan (-1, hard left, to 1, hard right), like the faders and pan knobs of a mixing desk: drums.volume = 0.5, guitar.pan = -0.6. Each part's reverb.mix says how much of it goes to the mix's shared room.

A part that only exists inside sections or patterns is mixed the same way, from outside them: the number holds wherever it plays, and so does a change at bar or a number that moves.

section groove { alfaia = O -o o_oo o; snare = Ssss Ssss Ssss Ssss }
form: groove x4
alfaia.volume = 1
at bar 3: alfaia.volume = 0.6

For the whole piece. A number written with no part is for all of them: reverb.mix = 0.5 puts every part in the mix's reverb. A chain written for all puts its effects on every part, after each part's own. And the mix's own bus, the master, has numbers of its own:

all: chorus -> delay
reverb.mix = 0.5
master.reverb.decay = 3 s
master.glue.on = 1
master.limiter.ceiling = -1