Ensemble

A Vocal Rider–style engine that rides a chorus toward its own rolling average, so the ensemble stays even without a hand on every fader.

Ensemble keeps a chorus even, automatically. It’s a Vocal Rider–style engine: it watches the mics in your chosen routing sets, works out the group’s average level, and rides each mic toward that target — quietly lifting the ones that drop and trimming the ones that jump — so the ensemble stays balanced without a hand on every fader.

It only writes when you enable it, and it corrects trim, so it sits underneath your fader moves rather than fighting them.

Ensemble running — LEVELLING lit in the header, the sidebar with ENABLE, the input/output toggle, the AVG meter and the quick-adjust cards, and a meter strip for each mic currently in the ensemble

The main screen

The header shows the title and, when the engine is running, a green ● LEVELLING indicator.

Down the left is the control sidebar:

ENABLE — turns the engine on. It asks first, because from that moment it starts writing trim corrections to the console.
INPUT / OUTPUT — switches the meter grid between the incoming levels and the corrected result, so you can see what the engine is doing.
AVG — a live meter of the group average, with the engine’s rolling target marked as a green line and shown in dB below.
Quick adjust — Target Offset, Max Boost and Max Cut as drag cards, so you can nudge the engine mid-show without opening Settings.

The rest of the screen is a meter strip per active mic. Membership is automatic: whichever mics are in your included routing sets right now are the ones the engine rides — so as cues change the ensemble follows.

Preferences

The gear opens Settings → Ensemble (a single page):

Included Routing Sets — pick which enabled routing sets feed the engine. This is what defines “the ensemble”: only mics currently assigned to these sets are levelled.
Meter Options — the Tap point (Pre DSP or Post DSP) the engine and meters read from, and the meter Size.
Engine Parameters — History Time (the averaging window, which also sets how fast corrections move), Max Boost, Max Cut, and Target Offset.

Settings → Ensemble — the routing sets included in the engine, the meter tap point and size, and the engine parameters

How it works

BridgeEnsembleManager reads the meter taps for the active channels — membership derived live from routing-set matching — computes a target from the rolling group average, works out each channel’s correction bounded by Max Boost / Max Cut, smooths it with hold and release over the History Time window, and writes the correction only once it exceeds a small dead band (about 0.5 dB). The engine ticks on each meter push (~50 Hz).