poll: edit or mix view

[weezul]

edit the whole way. I still have mix screen on the right hand monitor but to be honest I barely venture there. I use it when tracking more, but mixing its all about the edit window. I'm over there doing my thing anyway so to just drop a fader a little bit, its quicker to do it there imo

[skybluerental]

neither.
when i mix, 80 percent of the time the computer screen is off.
it turns your ears WAY up.
i do almost all my automation with faders on a control surface.
it makes me take more bold chances and make decisions based on what i am hearing in the moment rather than what i see on a screen.

its easy to forget, but the visual representation of music in a DAW has NOTHING to do with what the listener will experience.

in my opinion, looking at a computer screen is a serious bane of modern recording engineers existence.
the music is coming out of the speakers, not the computer monitor.

too many people mix with their eyes these days.

[Xander]

Edit. I think the only time I even look at the mix window is to check the delay compensation for tracks.

[Wayne]

A mouse + a picture of mixer, I don't even get the attraction.
Everything I need is in track view and with way more scalability and view options.

[josha]

yeah, i use the edit window mainly, i prefer it, but when it comes to mixing-when all the tracks are arranged and edited- it would make more sense to use the mix window, but for some reason I still don't...

[Xander]

Originally Posted by josha

yeah, i use the edit window mainly, i prefer it, but when it comes to mixing-when all the tracks are arranged and edited- it would make more sense to use the mix window, but for some reason I still don't...

Because you can't fine-tune automation with break points from the mix window?

[josha]

Originally Posted by Xander

Because you can't fine-tune automation with break points from the mix window?

yes, this may be a reason, hadn't considered it. thanks!

[Mertmo]

This question blows my mind a little.

Doesn't everyone need both?

When you need one... switch to that one.
When you need the other... switch back.
Or have two monitors...

????

[josha]

Originally Posted by Mertmo

This question blows my mind a little.

Doesn't everyone need both?


????

very good point and yeah, i agree with you! Its just that i find myself using the edit window nearly all the time (as do some other guys who've posted above). I'm actually trying to use the mix window more! also with an increase in laptop/ipad mixing, two monitors are not such an easy option.

[EstockAudio]

I may be the only one, but I live in the mix window 85% of the time. I guess I'm the outlier.

[uncle muscles]

Originally Posted by Joshua Estock

I may be the only one, but I live in the mix window 85% of the time. I guess I'm the outlier.

Me too!

[cinealta]

By Edit view I assume you mean the Arrange window?

[recordinghopkins]

The real question is:

For those of you that use the Edit Window exclusively, did you also once use Sound Tools?

[josha]

Originally Posted by Joshua Estock

I may be the only one, but I live in the mix window 85% of the time. I guess I'm the outlier.

o.k.- that's good to know. Any particular reason why?

[Tom Higgins]

I use both - both for good reasons (workflow)

[popmann]

Mix...all the time...for mixing. Mix+MCU w/Ext. Touch select faders. Access to all plugs in the view. Break up the project into Mixer Views (Cubase) so I can jump with one button to lay all the drums across the faders (and screen)...another lays the vox and busses...another the strings (VIs)...

When I have to mix with a mouse, I spend a little more time in edit/project view...making it maybe 50/50.

[Silky Smoove]

I use Logic, and hitting the X key toggles the mixer on and off, so it's very easy to jump back and forth. With this in mind, I always mix from the mixer window. Once tracking and editing is done, I practically live there.

The only time, outside of tracking and editing, that I'm in the arrange window is when I'm writing automation.

[Kaoz]

I use Reason 6 primarily these days (unless I need some plugs then I go into Live), but I've found that a dual screen setup is essential.

I've got a 24inch screen as my main rack/sequencer screen, and then I've got a 22inch screen flipped on it's side and is dedicated to the mix window - the new reason ssl mixer fits perfectly.

I split my time between the two fairly equally I guess, even when writing, until I start automating, and then I draw everything in on the sequencer.

[enisanci]

with markers it is easy to live in mix window but i also use edit window mostly after arranging the routing.

[Wayne]

Originally Posted by Xander

Because you can't fine-tune automation with break points from the mix window?

Originally Posted by josha

... but when it comes to mixing-when all the tracks are arranged and edited- it would make more sense to use the mix window, but for some reason I still don't...

..or to come (ask') from the other side, Why- would that be necessarily?

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by josha

how many of you guys mix primarily with the mix (console view) and how many mix with the edit view. I know you may use both, but is there one you come to most often? I've recently become aware of how little I use the mix view..

Every once in a long while I stumble into mixer view but my DAW (Sonar)'s track view is customizable enough that I can usually have it set up the way I want. By contrast, the mixer view in Sonar (I'm back one on 8.5) seems, to me, somewhat less flexible.

And, ultimately, there's usually something in track view that draws me back there, anyhow. Me, I find it very helpful to be able to see the MIDI and audio tracks when I'm tinkering a mix. To be sure, there are times when mixing that you want to close your eyes or blank the screen or whatever -- I agree that watching wave forms or dancing meters can sort of hypnotize you (well, me) -- but, ultimately, before long, I'm back there in track view.