User Manual

COMMANDS
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COMMAND GROUPS
Commands are visually organized into logical
groups. For example, all menu items found under
the File menu are grouped together. Each group
can be displayed or hidden by clicking the
disclosure triangle to the left of the group name.
Option/Alt-clicking a disclosure triangle will show
or hide all groups.
MIDI MASTERS
The first group of commands are MIDI Master
controls. MIDI Master controls enable or disable
MIDI control of commands by group. Keyboard
shortcut operation is unaffected. Like other
commands, Masters can be assigned keyboard
shortcuts or MIDI events.
Master controls have an additional check box next
to their name that indicates their current status and
allows you to manually enable or disable with the
mouse.
The ‘Master’ column in the Commands window
indicates which master individual commands are
controlled by.
The Master Master is a special master control that
enables or disables all master controls, effectively
enabling or disabling MIDI control of all
commands.
The General Master governs all commands that are
not covered by the other master commands
(Navigation, POLAR, Sound Selection, etc.)
You can see which master a command is assigned
to by widening the Commands window to view the
master assignment column, as shown below:
Figure 9-3: Viewing the master assignment for each command.
ASSIGNMENTS
To assign a key binding to a given Command,
simply click in the ‘Key’ column of a command and
a field will appear indicating it is ready to receive a
key stroke from the keyboard. The key or
combination of key and modifiers you press at this
time will be entered into the field.
There are two key bindings available for any given
command. For example, the Slave to External Sync
command could be mapped to both Command/
Ctrl-7 and Option/Alt-s.
You can use any key you want, except for the delete
key, which removes the current key binding, if any.
For your convenience, keyboard shortcut key
assignments are displayed in Digital Performer’s
menus.
MIDI Assignments
Any MIDI event can be mapped to a command.
You can further define the MIDI event by
specifying a source. Click in the source column to
reveal available devices as defined in your MIDI
Device configuration (Setup menu > Bundles >
MIDI Devices tab). If you have multiple controllers
closed disclosure triangle
open disclosure triangle
active MIDI Master
disabled MIDI Master