Mix Filter and Clipper

The Track Mix page shows how to use the mix filter and the clipper. This page lists every mode.

Mix filter modes

31 modes in five groups. Each mode decides what the knob means.

Group	Modes	The knob sets
Sweeps	Highpass 12 (default), Highpass 24, Lowpass 12, Lowpass 24, Bandpass Wide, Bandpass Tight, Notch Wide, Notch Tight, Acid, Drive, Scream	A frequency. Highpasses sweep up from 20 Hz, lowpasses down from 20 kHz (12 and 24 are the slope in dB per octave); bandpasses and notches move a band of fixed width. Acid is a resonant lowpass, Drive a lowpass behind saturation, Scream a resonant highpass with drive
Trims	Mud (250 Hz), Boxy (450 Hz), Honk (1 kHz), Harsh (3.1 kHz), Ess (7 kHz), Damp (high shelf from 4 kHz), Air (high shelf from 12 kHz), Warmth (low shelf from 150 Hz)	How much cut or boost: down to −12 dB (Ess −15 dB), up to +6 dB for Air and +4.5 dB for Warmth
Tilt	Dark, Bright	How far the spectrum tilts around 700 Hz, up to 6 dB at each end
Curves	Smiley, Telephone, Pultec, DI Box	How much of a fixed curve: lows and highs up with mids down, the telephone band, the Pultec low-end boost-and-cut, a clean bass DI
Sources	Kick, Snare, Bass, Vocal, Tops, Acoustic	How much of a starting curve for that kind of track

A track saved with the old Band mode keeps it, shown under Current.

Clipping curves add harmonic character at zero latency; limiters control peaks without coloring. Their ⌃ keys: Timeline shortcuts.

Mode	Character
None (default)	Bypass, no clipping
Hard	Aggressive digital clipping, peaks sliced flat
Hard (Edge)	Hard clipping with smoothed entry and exit on the clipped edges
Hard (Erosion)	Edge clipping that leaves deliberate grit on the clipped samples
Quintic	Gentle soft clip with smooth saturation onset
Cubic	Classic soft clip, warm and musical, predominantly odd harmonics
Hyperbolic Tan	Analog-style saturation, smoothest transition into limiting
Algebraic	Moderate soft clip, between Arctangent and Cubic
Arctangent	Gentle saturation, preserves dynamics, minimal coloration
Limit	Zero-latency peak limiter, stereo-linked gain reduction, ~100 ms release
Limit (Lookahead)	Peak limiter with a short lookahead buffer for a smoother response. Adds minimal latency, compensated automatically