Overview: --------- Mixer4 will look for 3 text files when it is run: The tracks.txt file assigns wave files to channels in the mixer. The faders.txt file contains settings for all your volume, pan, and effect parameters. The prefs.txt file contains a few user preferences and allows you to switch between mixing the entire song or just mixing a section. The general idea is that you start a line of text with a command like "v" for volume followed by several tab separated values pertaining to that command. The first parameter is almost always channel number. So, you enter a command, then a channel to apply that command to, and then other parameters such as threshold and attack time for a compressor. It was an intentional design that 0 dB full scale is the volume limit throughout the mixer. So, mixer channels should never show peaks above 0 dB. This lack of headroom may appear to be a limitation compared to other mixers, but realize that in return you gain "footroom." Whereas in other mixers as you lower a fader you will get rounding errors, in this program you will not. In other mixers, if you exceed 0 dB on a channel you would have to lower the master fader to compensate, resulting in yet another calculation and source of error.