Mix Terrain turns a finished song into a 3D landscape you can fly over: frequency runs across, time runs from front to back, and level is height. It helps you review a mix by eye and ear, pointing to places worth a closer listen and showing the measurements behind each one.
How to read it
Low frequencies are on the left and highs on the right; the song starts at the front corner where 0:00 meets 20 Hz. A thin cross-section marks the playhead as the song plays. Mix Terrain analyses the whole file at once, so it is a review tool, not a live meter.
Colour adds a second reading. By default the hue shows frequency and the richness shows level, so loud areas stand out and quiet ones look pale. The Color by menu can switch to short-term loudness, peak contrast and other views, and three palettes, Mineral, Dawn and Night, change the look. Height always shows level.
The review
The Review panel lists what the analysis found, in two groups:
- Level checks: true peaks near the ceiling, samples close to full scale, and DC offset.
- Listening cues: tonal balance, narrow peaks, stereo differences in the low end, sub energy and changes in loudness.
Select an item to fly the camera to it and see the measured value, the threshold it crossed and what it might mean. Listen here starts playback a second before it, for context. The cues are suggestions to check by ear, not verdicts: a sustained musical note can trigger a resonance cue, and a clean review does not mean the mix is finished.
Getting started
Choose one of the example tracks from the Examples bar, or upload or drop your own WAV, AIFF or MP3 of up to just under six minutes. An example full mix loads when the viewer is empty. Press Space to play, click the terrain or drag the timeline to seek, and pick a review item to jump to it.
Four cameras show the song in different ways. Follow, the default, looks from the start of the song toward the end and drifts gently while it plays. Overview and Profile give fixed angles, and Top lays the song out flat, time left to right. Keys 1 to 4 switch cameras, , and . step through review items, [ and ] step through sections, and Show all brings the whole song back into view.
Good to know
Section markers are estimates, and the frequency-region labels (Sub, Bass, Mids and so on) name ranges, not instruments. Findings are measured against the track's own balance rather than against a reference mix.