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PREFERENCES AND SETTINGS
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Assigning colors
The Assign Track Colors sub-menu command
(View menu) lets you Assign Track Colors to
multiple tracks at one time. Numerous options are
provided, as shown below in Figure 7-20:
Figure 7-20: Assigning colors to many tracks at one time.
To use the Assign Track Colors command, select
one or more tracks and then choose View menu >
Colors > Assign Track Colors. Choose the option as
desired and the click OK. Below is a summary of
the assign color options:
The ‘Pick Colors Randomly’ option
The Pick colors randomly option appears for several
of the choices above it in the Assign Track Colors
dialog. When it is checked, it assigns the specified
colors at random to all currently selected tracks.
When it is unchecked, colors are assigned from the
current color scheme palette starting with the first
color specified and then proceeding to the right
and then down to the beginning of the next row.
AUTOMATIC CONVERSIONS
Digital Performer can automatically convert audio
data wherever necessary to make it conform to the
current project’s sample rate, file format,
interleaved format, and tempo. Because processing
is initiated automatically and carried out via
background processing (for lengthy operations),
these auto-conversion features greatly streamline
the process of importing audio quickly into your
projects, or the process of converting the entire
project to a different sample rate, file format,
interleaved format, or tempo.
The Automatic Conversions preferences
(Figure 7-21) provides a global switch (the Enable
Automatic Conversions option), and it also allows
you to further specify your preferences for how
audio is automatically converted.
Figure 7-21: The automatic audio file conversion preferences.
Option Explanation
according to Track
Color Preferences
Assigns colors to each track according to
the settings in the Track Color Prefer-
ences dialog (Figure 7-14).
to all different colors Assigns a color to each track from the cur-
rently selected color scheme (palette).
When the “Pick Colors Randomly” check
box is not checked, this option starts at
the beginning of the palette and works its
way towards the end as needed according
to the number of tracks selected. If “Pick
Colors Randomly” is checked, it will
assign colors randomly from the palette.
to different shades
of the same color
Lets you choose a specific color from the
color palette and then only uses the vari-
ous shades of that color (from the same
row in the palette).
to colors in a range Lets you choose a start color and an end
color from the color palette and then
cycles through all the colors in between as
needed according to the number of tracks
selected.
to the same color Lets you assign all currently selected
tracks to a single color of your choice (as
specified by the swatch provided).