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The
Fast Forward
button moves the Play Head at an accelerated speed forward through the Composition
while it is being pressed.
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The
Stop
button stops playback of the Composition.
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The
Loop Play
toggle button puts Pyramix into a loop play mode, which continuously plays the Composi-
tion between a marked In and Out point.
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The
Shuttle Control
slider shuttles the Play Head forward (right) or backward (left). It scrubs the audio on
all Tracks as it shuttles through the Composition. The farther the extent from the center, the faster the
shuttle.
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The
Chase
button allows for synchronized locking of the Composition Play Head with an external time
code signal, commonly known as
Chase
mode. See the
User Manual
for more information.
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The
Controllers
button toggles exterrnal hardware controllers on or off line.
Adjacent to the Controllers button, select
Internal
from the pop-up list to ensure you are controlling the Pyramix
Composition Play Head and not some external device (I.e. an RS-422 playback machine).
Zooming and Panning
There are 2 kinds of zooming in the Project Editing Panel: horizontal or Time Scale zooming; and vertical or Track
height zooming.
Time Scale Zoom and Pan
Zoom In
and
Zoom Out
icons on the Toolbar zoom in or out at the current Play Head location.
Hold down the
Alt
key, then select an area of the Composition by clicking and dragging the mouse to the left or
right. This zooms in horizontally on the selected area.
Similarly, an area of the Composition can be selected by clicking and dragging. Now the
Fit in window
icon from
the Toolbar will automatically adjust the horizontal scale to fit the selected area inside the Project Editing Panel.
Keyboard shortcuts also exist for all these zooming actions.
The
Scrollbar
beneath the Tracks directly below the Time Scale bar allows the user to Pan horizontally left or right
in the usual fashion.
Track Height Zoom
In addition to horizontal zoom, the user can easily increase or decrease the height of each Track within the Project
Editing Panel.
The
1
,
2
,
4
,
8
,
16
,
A
buttons at the bottom left of the Project Editing Panel automatically scale the vertical Track size
so that 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or All (as many as possible given the vertical space) Tracks fit in the vertical space allocated to
the Project Editing Panel.
The
Scrollbar
adjacent to these buttons allows for continuous adjustment of the Track height.
Double-clicking in the far left of a track header cycles through four preset track heights.
Mini
,
Medium
,
Large
and
Extra large
.
Scroll Wheel
It is well worth while using a three button mouse with a scroll wheel.
Scroll
Scrolls vertically through the tracks shown in the Project Editing Panel
Ctrl
Scrolls the Timeline
Alt
Zooms the Timeline timescale
