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The Fretboard/Edit Splits Area
The lower portion of the Perform window is a virtual fretboard that depicts each note you play in real time.
A. Virtual fretboard.
The graphic is oriented with the lowest string at the bottom, as if you were peering
over your guitar’s neck at the fretboard (assuming you’re right-handed). The moving dots depict each note you
play on the fretboard.
B. Show Splits button.
Click to open the Edit Splits view.
C. Fretboard display toggle.
Clicking the pickup image toggles between three fretboard appearances:
rosewood fretboard (pictured), rosewood humbucker fretboard, and maple fretboard.
When the Edit Splits View is selected, a set of adjustable “handles” appears over the fretboard graphic. Each of
the color-coded zones corresponds to one of TriplePlay’s synth channels. In other words, you can assign up to four
sounds to four user-defi nable quadrants of the fretboard, and choose which sounds are heard according to where
you play on the neck. (This only applies when you’ve selected Mono mode in the TriplePlay Parameters panel. In
Poly mode, the sound assigned to Synth 1 is heard across the entire fretboard, regardless of Edit Split settings.)
A. Synth 1 split zone.
Notes played in this zone trigger sound from the VI assigned to the Synth 1 channel.
If a plug-in is assigned to Synth 1, its name appears here.
B. Synth 2 split zone.
Notes played in this zone trigger sound from the VI assigned to the Synth 2 channel.
If a plug-in is assigned to Synth 2, its name appears here.
C. Synth 3 split zone.
Notes played in this zone trigger sound from the VI assigned to the Synth 3 channel.
If a plug-in is assigned to Synth 3, its name appears here.
D. Synth 4 split zone.
Notes played in this zone trigger sound from the VI assigned to the Synth 4 channel.
If a plug-in is assigned to Synth 4, its name appears here.
E. Neck split handle.
Click-drag to set the upper fret limit of the Synth 1 and Synth 2 split zones, or the
lower fret limit of the Synth 3 and Synth 4 split zones. Clicking on one of these zone pairs highlights it, mak-
ing its controls active. Neck split cannot be set independently for the Synth 1 and Synth 2 split zones, nor for
the Synth 3 and Synth 4 split zones, but the Synth 1 and 2 zones can overlap Synths 3 and 4 zones, with notes
played in shared areas triggering sound from multiple channels.
F. String split handle.
This works like the Neck Split handle, except that it assigns synth channels to specifi c
strings rather than to specifi c frets. String splits cannot be set independently for Synth 1 and Synth 3, or for
Synth 2 and Synth 4. But you can specify different string splits for the Synth 1/Synth 2 pair and the Synth 3/
Synth 4 pair.
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