User Manual

CHAPTER
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10 Consolidated Window
OVERVIEW
The Consolidated Window serves as Digital
Performer’s document window, giving you access
to primary features (main Control Panel, Tracks
Window, Sequence Editor, Mixing Board,
Waveform Editor, etc.) in one window with tabs
across the main central section. You can quickly
access the desired feature by clicking its
corresponding tab, without having to switch to a
different window. In addition, the Consolidated
Window is highly configurable, allowing you to
split the window into several — or even many —
different sections for quick access to critical
features conveniently presented in one window.
With Digital Performer’s Window Sets feature, you
can create and save an unlimited number of
Consolidated Window setups, finely tuned and
customized for each stage in your workflow. The
Consolidated Window provides you with a
simplified, unified, highly customized work space.
When you close the Consolidated Window, you
close the Digital Performer document you are
working on (although there is a preference that
affects this behavior. See “Additional Consolidated
Window preferences” on page 105.)
Quick Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Window menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Deciding how to work with windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Consolidated Window preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Opening the Consolidated Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Going full screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Consolidated Window title bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Other window Title bars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
The Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
The body (center) section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
The Sidebars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
The Mixing Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Using Horizontal Dividers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Dragging cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Cell focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Getting rid of a cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Popping windows in and out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
The Consolidated Window and Window Sets . . . . . . .109
Opening old documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109