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Introduction
Document Window
Menus
List Windows
Menus
Patch
Menus
Tool Palette
Move Trigger
Menus
Messages
Preferences
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Introduction

This section describes all of the different windows associated with KeyMaster documents.

All windows have one common menu, the "Windows" menu. It contains some window commands like "Stack", some windows you can open via this menu like the Messages and Instruments windows, and a list of all open windows.

Document Window

The document window displays the current chain, current song, and current patch. There are buttons for moving between chains, songs, and patches, and for editing the current chain, song, or patch.

The button in the lower half of the window opens the move trigger window. The check box turns on and off MIDI Active Sensing filtering.

Dragging a chain, song, or patch onto the corresponding name text field or typing a name and hitting Enter makes that chain, song, orpatch the current one. You need not type the whole name; the shortest unique beginning of the name will work. Also, you needn't worry about matching upper and lower case; all name comparisons are case-insensitive.

Menus

List Windows

There are a few windows that are all similar. They contain lists of other objects. For example, the All Chains window contains the list of chains, and a Song window contains a list of patches.

Here are the list windows:

Each of these windows has much in common. If you click the secondary mouse button, a pop-up menu appears.

Opening An Item

To open or edit an item in a list window, you can:
To find out how to edit an item, see the Editing section of this documentation.

Creating A New Item

To create a new item, select "New Item" from the "Item" menu. You can also select "Duplcate" from the "Edit" menu.

When you create a new Song in any Chain, it is added to the special "All Songs" chain as well.

Renaming An Item

To edit the name of a item, select "Edit Item Name" from the "Item" menu.

Dragging An Item

You can drag an item to or from this window to various places. For example, you can drag a song from one chain to another to copy it, or you can drag a patch from one song to another to copy it.

Dragging an item does not delete it from a list window. Dragging from a list window always copies the item.

You can also drag a song to the "Current Song" text field in the Document window and The KeyMaster will jump to that song. The same goes for chains and patches.

Cutting/Copying/Pasting An Item

The Edit menu provides Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate, and Delete menu items.

Deleting An Item

You can delete an item from a list via the "Delete" item in the Edit menu, or by pressing the DELETE or BACKSPACE keys.

Most items are really gone when you delete them from a list window. The only exception is a in a chain window. When you delete a song from any chain except the All Songs chain, it is not gone forever; you can still see it in the All Songs window. A song is only deleted if you delete it from the All Songs window.

Menus

Patch

For a description of patches, the Patch Window, and patch element editor windows, see the Patches section.

Menus

Tool Palette

The Tool Palette window contains icons that represent patch elements. To add a patch element to a patch, drag one of these icons into an open Patch Window.

Only MIDI inputs, MIDI outputs, and triggers can be dragged onto a patch window directly. All other patch elements must be dragged between two other elements.

To make a new output for a splitter, drag a patch element to the bottom of the splitter.

Move Trigger

MOVE TRIGGERS ARE NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.

Move Triggers let you move from patch to patch via MIDI events. See the section on Movement Triggers for a complete desription of what they do.

Describe move trigger window here

Messages

See the section on Editing Messages.

Preferences

Click on "Cancel" or type Alt-. to close the Preferences window without making any changes.


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