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To accommodate the numerous audio post production toolsets and workflows, the Fairlight Audio Editor includes six primary Editor modes that change the picture keyboard layout and Editor functions based on the operational task at hand. These six “mega” Editor modes are conveniently named after their toolsets as follows:
— Setup: This mode provides quick access to non-editing operational windows, view options, and functions such as opening the Bus Format and Bus Assign windows, toggling on and off audio track layers, and saving a project.
— Record: As you probably guessed, this mode presents the precision tools you’ll need to perform manual, punch-in and ADR recording.
— Monitor: Use this mode to quickly change your fixed monitoring levels, isolate speakers, buses or mains, switch to alternate speaker sets, toggle phase, and other control room playback monitoring functions.
— Macros: This mode presents 30 programmable Macro keys where you can record sequences of keystrokes for repetitive tasks to each Macro key.
— Mix: Transforms the Fairlight Audio Editor into a robust mixing tool with full control of Fairlight page Mixer functions like track EQ, Dynamics and Pan settings, copy and paste settings between tracks, as well as utilizing the full automation recording and editing toolset.
— Edit: This is where the Fairlight Audio Editor got its name and reputation for unparalleled speed and accuracy for every aspect of audio post editing from auditioning and syncing sound effects to checkerboard editing dialogue tracks on the fly.
Editor mode keys: Setup, Record, Monitor, Macros, Mix, and Edit, with Mix mode currently active