MX

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MX is studio shorthand for "music."

Studio engineers have limited time, and they tend to use shorthand. MX is one of several very short references to certain parts of programming and scripts. Others include EFX, WX and VOX. Any idea what those might be? You can look them up in the Geekspeak section!

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