Mixer

You don't need to structure your patches around a mixer - it's fine to route everything into the main audio outputs if you want - but benny does contain some mixer blocks.

The benny mix blocks use airwindows console 7 for non-linear summing. For this to work, you have to go from the mix.channel / mix.stereo.channel blocks into a mix.bus block, and there can't be anything else inbetween the two and this connection has to be at unity gain. benny takes care of this last constraint. You can add more voices to either kind of channel block to add more channels. The three modes (channel, cascade, crunch) give the channels progressively more aggressive saturation characteristics. In the mix bus block you can toggle all airwindows non-linear summing for the whole set.

You can assign a midi controller directly to the mixer in the mix.bus block. The controller code uses smart-soft-pickup to avoid ever having discontinuities or dead fader zones.

You can also view the mix.bus ui in a special 'bottom bar' area, a button to toggle this will appear bottom left.

You can name individual channels by ctrl-clicking the name area.

If you select multiple connections all going to the same destination benny can insert a mixer into them all for you. This is handy if you start patching and decide halfway you'd like a mixer.