Shortcuts & Gestures
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Aura Mixer is mouse-driven, and a handful of gestures work everywhere. Learn these five and the whole app speeds up.
Universal control gestures
Almost every control answers to the same handful of gestures:
| Gesture | Effect | Where it works |
|---|---|---|
| Drag | Set the value | Faders, knobs, sliders |
| Double-click | Reset to the default value | Faders & knobs |
| Mouse wheel (hover) | Step the value — about 1 dB per notch on channel faders | Faders & knobs |
| Shift + wheel | Finer steps — about 0.3 dB per notch | Channel faders |
| Click the number | Type an exact value — Enter confirms, Esc cancels | Knobs & slider rows |
The big channel faders are drag / wheel / double-click only — they have no type-in box. The numeric type-in lives on the rotary knobs and the labelled slider rows.
Per-area gestures
Faders & strips
- SELECT — open a strip in the config screen.
- M / S — mute / solo; ● CLR SOLO (monitor bar) clears all solos.
- DIM (monitor bar) — drop your monitoring −20 dB.
Equalizer
- Drag a point on the curve — up/down to boost/cut, left/right to change frequency.
- Band badges — click to select; + adds a band, ✕ deletes the selected one; each band has its own ON / OFF.
FX rack
- Drag a node's body — moves it on the canvas (position is visual only).
- Drag from a node's output port onto another node's input — rewires the processing order.
- + Node ▾ — add an effect; ON / OFF on a node — bypass just that effect; × — remove a user insert (asks to confirm).
Presets
- PRESET ▾ — open the preset menu on any processor.
- Rename (in Workshop ▸ My Library) — rename a preset you saved yourself (Enter confirms, Esc cancels).
Channel Manager
- Drag the ⠿ handle — reorder channels, buses or groups.
Window & tray
- ✕ — minimizes to the system tray by default (audio keeps running).
- Left-click the tray icon — restore the window; right-click — Start/Stop engine, Show Aura Mixer, Quit.
💡 Tip
Aura Mixer has no built-in keyboard shortcuts — everything is on screen — but you can bind your own global ones to mixer actions in Settings → Hotkeys. (The only fixed key is Space to play each sound in the Find my best profile test.)
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