Settings — Interface
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Settings → Interface — look, feel and a couple of guard rails. (The About tab next door holds the version number, the project description, the update controls, and buttons to aura-mixer.com and the Discord.)
The view toggle isn't on this tab — it lives in the menu bar at the top of the window, so you can switch from either view. Simple is the easy, mostly-automated view; Advanced is the full console. It's the same mixer underneath, switching loses nothing, and your choice is remembered. See Simple mode.
Appearance
Theme — Dark (default) or Light. Dark is the classic studio look and easy on the eyes during long sessions; Light wins in bright rooms. Takes effect immediately.
Mixer workspace
Slim strips (default: off) — makes every strip in the Advanced mixer narrower, so more of them fit on screen before the mixer has to page. Channel, VCA-group and bus strips go from their regular width to about three-quarters of it — roughly a third more strips side by side.
To make the room, a slim strip drops the row with the type badge and the EQ / FX / SP markers, shortens SELECT to SEL, and uses a condensed fader without the engraved dB scale — the fader's exact value is still shown in the readout below it. Everything else — mute, solo, the meter, the fader gestures — works exactly as on a regular strip, and SELECT/SEL still opens the strip's tabs in the config screen.
Simple mode isn't affected — its cards stay the same size.
Behavior
Delete Confirmation (default: on) — the inline "are you sure?" step when deleting channels, buses or groups in the Channel Manager. Deleting a strip takes its processing and routing with it, permanently — leave this on unless misclicks are not a thing that happens to you.
Simple Mode
Hide Recorders from the Output rack (default: on) — a Recorder bus already gets a full transport (REC / Pause / Stop, live waveform) in Simple view's Media tray, so it is left out of the plain fader-card rack below it. Switch it off to show Recorder buses there too.
Performance
Two switches that pause the user interface — never the audio — to save CPU when you're not looking:
- Freeze when minimized — VU meters and visual updates pause while the window is minimized.
- Freeze when unfocused — same, whenever another app has focus.
Sound capture, processing and output continue at full quality in both cases; the moment the window is back, the meters resume. If you keep Aura Mixer on a second monitor to watch the meters while working elsewhere, leave "unfocused" off — otherwise both switches are free efficiency.