Mixer
The desk the decks plug into, made of the kit's own materials. Any number of channels (two by default, up to eight), each with a trim, three-band EQ, a colour filter, a crossfader side, a cue key and a fader beside its LED ladder; master and booth levels, a crossfader with three curves, a small screen, and a back panel with the line ins and the master out.
What it is for
The mixing half of a booth, or an audio app that wants a real console: a music tool, a streaming control room, a podcast desk, a game's sound menu.
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Datasheet
- Mechanism
- N channel strips from one function, Three band eq and colour filter, Audio taper faders, Crossfader curves, Meters from the same gains, Declared channel routing, Two faced 3d flip, Container query layout
- Stack
- Vanilla ES modules, Dom, Web Audio, CSS
- Needs
- Deck
- States
- 11 documented
- Version
- 0.1.0
- Licence
- With a Pass
States
- Channel stripsTrim, high, mid and low, and a colour filter that closes a low-pass from the left and a high-pass from the right; each knob clicks at the middle, turns by drag, wheel or keys and speaks its value.
- Faders and laddersA channel fader on an audio taper beside its own LED ladder; the ladders rise at once and fall over about a third of a second.
- CrossfaderA side switch on every channel (A, thru, B) and a crossfader with a smooth, linear or cut curve; the screen and the speech say how much of each side passes.
- Cue and listenA cue key per channel and a Listen to switch: master, or the cued channels before their faders.
- Master and boothTwo knobs and a pair of ladders on a scale from minus 36 to plus 6 dB.
- ScreenEach channel's source and tempo with a bar for what it sends to the master, the master level, and the last control touched.
- ChannelsThe channels option draws that many strips and line-in sockets; the strips wrap onto rows when the box is narrow.
- Plugged inA deck declares its channel and the mixer takes it; the screen and the back panel say what is plugged in where.
- Back panelIt turns over to a line in per channel (left and right), the master out in balanced and unbalanced, booth and phones, link and power. The cables from the decks arrive at the line ins.
- FinishesAll twelve, Tactile and Quiet: knobs, faders and faces read the kit's tokens.
- Reduced motionThe mixer does not turn over; the meters update about eight times a second.
Notes
Decks plug into its channels and say which one they feed; the sound, the meters and the printed numbers all come from the same gains. Make it four channels and a third and fourth deck can plug in.
Original. Every strip is made from one function, so they cannot drift apart. The meters and the sound read the same gains (mixLevels is pure and tested in Node). It needs the Tactile UI Kit's stylesheets on the page; the Code tab's example links them from /kit/ and plugs two Decks in with a Rig that draws the cables between them.
Anatomy
N channel strips from one function, Three band eq and colour filter, Audio taper faders, Crossfader curves, Meters from the same gains, Declared channel routing, Two faced 3d flip, Container query layout
Usage notes
The mixing half of a booth, or an audio app that wants a real console: a music tool, a streaming control room, a podcast desk, a game's sound menu. Decks plug into its channels and say which one they feed; the sound, the meters and the printed numbers all come from the same gains. Make it four channels and a third and fourth deck can plug in.
Options
| Option | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| channels | number | How many channel strips: one to eight. Each has its own trim, EQ, filter, cue and fader, and its own line in on the back. |
| curve | enum | Smooth keeps the level even through the blend; linear dips in the middle; cut keeps both full until the last few millimetres, for scratching. |
| side | enum | The front panel, or the back with the inputs and the master out. The mixer turns over. |
| name | text | Printed on the mixer and read out by a screen reader. |
| label | text | Empty reads the name and the channel count. |
Methods
- channels
- attach
- detach
- target
- otherSource
- feeders
- update
- flip
- setCrossfader
- strip
- destroy
How it works
Original. Every strip is made from one function, so they cannot drift apart. The meters and the sound read the same gains (mixLevels is pure and tested in Node). It needs the Tactile UI Kit's stylesheets on the page; the Code tab's example links them from /kit/ and plugs two Decks in with a Rig that draws the cables between them.