Mixer Groups

A show with a dozen live sources is hard to ride one strip at a time. Groups let you collect related sources — hosts, music beds, cameras — and control them together.

Creating a group

Open the Audio Mixer panel
Create a group and give it a name (Hosts, Music, Cameras — whatever matches your show)
Drag sources into it

A source belongs to one group at a time. Sources you haven’t grouped stay in Ungrouped.

Riding a group

Each group header has its own fader, mute, and solo:

Group fader — scales every source in the group without touching their individual faders. Pull the group down and the balance you set inside it stays intact.
Group mute — silences the whole group
Group solo — hears the group on its own
Group meter — shows the group’s combined level

The group fader is a trim over the strips underneath, not a replacement for them. Set the balance within a group once, then ride the group.

Reordering and collapsing

Drag strips to reorder them within a group, or drag them between groups. Groups themselves can be reordered the same way.

Collapse a group you’re not touching to get the rest of the mixer back on screen. A collapsed group still mixes — collapsing only hides the strips.

Hiding sources

Some sources never need a fader — a test pattern, a title card with no audio. Hide them from the mixer to keep the panel readable.

A Hidden (n) button in the mixer footer lists what’s hidden and brings anything back. Hidden is not muted: a hidden source still contributes to the mix, and the footer button turns a caution colour the moment a hidden source is live, so you can’t lose audio behind it.

Hidden state is saved with the project.

Control from elsewhere

Groups are on the Control API and MCP — mixer_create_group, mixer_set_group, mixer_delete_group, and group_id on each mixer row. See MCP Tools.