Operation Manual

The Tassman Player 55
4 The Tassman Player
4.1 Introduction
The Player is the view used by the Tassman to play instruments. It appears on the screen as an
instrument front panel with knobs, buttons, sliders and switches which you can tweak to play the
instrument.
The Player can viewed in the following manners:
• Double click on the Tassman icon on your desktop. The default performance is then launched.
• To launch the Player from the Builder view, choose the Show Player command from the
View menu or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-T/Apple-T.
Note that it is possible to switch back and forth between the Player and the Builder when you
want to modify your instruments.
• To view the patch corresponding to the current synthesizer in the Builder, click on the Show
Builder button in the toolbar, choose the Show Builder command from the View menu or
use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-T/Apple-T.
• Once the current patch is modified in the Builder, return to the Player by clicking on the
Show Player button in the toolbar, choosing the Show Player command from the View
menu or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-T/Apple-T.
4.2 The Tassman Player
The Player area is displayed as a rack into which you mount rows of modules. The front panels
which appear in the rack correspond to the modules you have used to make your patch in the
Builder. The name appearing at the top of each module is the one you chose when constructing the
instrument in the Builder. There is no a priori limit to the number of modules you can use in an
instrument, this will be determined by the power of your machine.
• There are sixteen rows accessible in the Player view. You can navigate through them hori-
zontally and vertically with the two scroll bars at the right and bottom of the Player.
• The row on which a module is displayed is set in the Builder. To place a module on a specific
row, double-click on the module in the Builder. In the edit window, choose the Display row
(1-16). Within a row, modules are placed according to their position in the Builder view with
a left-to-right and up-down priority.
More modules can be placed in a given row than actually appear in the Tassman Player area.
The number of modules you will be able to place on one row will be around 100-150 (depending
on which modules you include).