It's not a placeholder. You can choose to make each track wider, to fill the space.

Click on the settings gear icon in the upper right corner of the mixer (next to Patches tab), and set the Maximum Panel Height to something like 114. While you are there, look at the other checkboxes and settings.

In beta testing, one person suggested we should be able to customize the space you identified and perhaps put a picture of our own there. While that didn't happen, BIAB 2021 gave people more tracks that they had asked for, and made the mixer much more flexible. Adjust it to what you like.


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