The three switchable sections of a channel config apply (operator, 2026-09-10): EQ, Gate and
Compressor apply independently of each other and of the rest of the whole-state apply (gain,
trim, pan, polarity, align, chain), which always lands as one statement. Named from
AtomicChannelPart — the same words the clipboard already uses for these three stages —
rather than a parallel vocabulary; a channel config just never offers the clipboard's other
parts (chain/trim/mix/sends/label) as INDEPENDENT switches, because those are not optional
halves of a template apply the way a built-in processing stage is.
The three switchable sections of a channel config apply (operator, 2026-09-10): EQ, Gate and Compressor apply independently of each other and of the rest of the whole-state apply (gain, trim, pan, polarity, align, chain), which always lands as one statement. Named from AtomicChannelPart — the same words the clipboard already uses for these three stages — rather than a parallel vocabulary; a channel config just never offers the clipboard's other parts (chain/trim/mix/sends/label) as INDEPENDENT switches, because those are not optional halves of a template apply the way a built-in processing stage is.