The Mix Editor gives you an interactive, visual display of almost everything that can change (or be changed) on a channel: Fader levels, mutes, L/R and front/rear pans, digital trim, aux and cue levels, cue pans, bus and L/R assignments, phase reverse, soft-knee compression toggle, and Key Input attenuator level/EQ gain/EQ frequency/EQ bandwidth. In fact, we've added so much stuff that we've been able to eliminate a separate Event List - everything is now graphically displayed.

You can view all the parameters of a single channel or the same parameter on multiple channels, such as 12 fader level tracks stack above one another.

The mix editor is obviously a lot more than a display. It's an interactive editor with multiple tool cursors that lets you edit automation data over variable time intervals. Just grab a point and move it with the mouse to finetune a parameter. Or, cut, copy and paste automation sequences to new spots on the time line. "Auto Follow" changes the Mix Editor display as you change functions, for example switching to EQ parameters when you rotate an EQ knob.

The Mix Editor is equipped with multiple cursor tools such as Pointer, for creating new automation points and moving existing ones; Highlighter, to select data by time and channel; Eraser and Magnify.

New 3.0 features include view sizing arrows, SMPTE/bars:beats:ticks time code boxes, loop-in/loop-out, punch in/punch out and locate markers, contextual right mouse button activation of track parameters and time bars.

If you haven't used a serious automation system before, the Mix Editor is the door to a whole new world of creativity and craftsmanship. It means saying goodbye to hurried, "on-the-fly" mixdown adjustments. You can fine-tune automated parameters without even having to play back a track.

The Automation and the Mix Editor have an associated History List that allows up to 200 levels of undo and redo.