24.12 Hotkeys
In many situations TotalMix can be controlled quickly and comfortably by the keyboard, making the mixer setup considerably easier and faster. The
•Clicking anywhere into the fader area with the
•Clicking anywhere into the pan area with the
•Clicking a preset button while holding down Ctrl, the original factory preset will be loaded.
•Using Ctrl and any number between 1 and 8 (not on the numeric keypad!) will load the cor- responding factory default preset. Alt plus number loads the user preset.
•Using multiple HDSP MADIs, clicking the button Unit 2 while holding down Ctrl opens a sec- ond TotalMix window for the second HDSP system, instead of replacing the window con- tents.
The faders can also be moved pairwise, corresponding to the
At the same time, TotalMix also supports combinations of these keys. If you press Ctrl and Alt at the same time, clicking with the mouse makes the faders jump to 0 dB pairwise, and they can be set pairwise by
Also very useful: the faders have two mouse areas. The first area is the fader button, which can be grabbed at any place without changing the current position. This avoids unwanted changes when clicking onto it. The second area is the whole fader setting area. Clicking into this area makes the fader jump to the mouse at once. If for instance you want to set several faders to m.a., it is sufficient to click onto the lower end of the fader path. Which happens pairwise with the
Using the hotkeys I, O and P the complete row of Input, Playback and Output channels each can be toggled between visible and invisible. Hotkey S switches Submix view on/off. Those four hotkeys have the same functionality as the buttons in the View section of the Quick Access Panel. The Level Meter Setup dialog can be opened via F2 (as in DIGICheck). The dialog box Preferences is opened via F3.
Hotkey M toggles Mute Master on/off (and with this performs a global mute on/off). Hotkey X toggles the Matrix view on/off (see chapter 25), hotkey T the mixer view. Hotkey L links all fad- ers as stereo pairs.
Further hotkeys are available to control the configuration of the Level Meter (see chapter 24.14):
Key 4 or 6: Display range 40 or 60 dB
Key E or R: Numerical display showing Peak or RMS
Key 0 or 3: RMS display absolute or relative to 0 dBFS
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