Alesis Hammerfall DSP System manual Hotkeys

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 Shift-key for the fine mode for faders and panpots has already been mentioned. The Ctrl-key can do far more than changing the routing pairwise:

•Clicking anywhere into the fader area with the Ctrl-key pressed, sets the fader to 0 dB.

•Clicking anywhere into the pan area with the Ctrl-key pressed, sets the panorama to <C> meaning Center.

•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 stereo-routing settings. This is achieved by pressing the Alt-key and is especially comfortable when setting the SPDIF and Phones output level. Even the panoramas can be operated with Alt, from stereo through mono to inversed channels, and also the Mute and Solo buttons (ganged or inversed switching!).

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 Shift-Altin fine mode.

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 Alt-key pressed.

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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