All events appear in the Mix Editor window as event markers in the time bar. Events can be edited from either window. Any text entered in the description column in the Event Automation Track also appears in the event marker tab in the Mix Editor.

Edit

Click this button to choose from the Event Automation Track Edit Menu.

New Event (Alt+N)

•Select this item to add a new event to the list. The New Event window opens.

•New Event Type lets you select the specific type of automation event: Snapshot, EQ, Compressor, Gate, Channel, or Plug-in.

•Load Target lets you select a channel destination for the selected data type.

•A snapshot event does not permit target selection; it only requires the entry of the specific snapshot number.

•Browse/Path allows you to search your D8B patch files for the desired automation event.

•Highlight the proper patch in the list, then press “Open” to load the event into the automation event list.

Note: The folder that opens automatically for each event type contains user patches, so if you haven’t saved any patches, you won’t see any items on the list.

•You can enter the exact frame-accurate time for the automation event in the Time window.

•Click each time segment and drag up or down to increase the time setting.

•Time settings are also selectable by pressing the Tab key until the appropriate time field is highlighted, then entering the number from the numeric keypad or number keys on the keyboard. Tab from field to field.

Duplicate Event

•Highlight any list item, then select Duplicate Event.

•This creates an ide^]Åcal copy of the selected event.

•Use this feature to duplicate an action at a different time stamp. Simply duplicate the event, then edit the time stamp field by double-clicking on the time reference. Place the cursor on the desired time unit, then drag up to increase or down to decrease.

Capture Event Time (Alt+T)

•Highlight and release this Edit Menu item to copy the current Locator time position to the time reference window of the highlighted Event Automation Track item.

Run Event (Alt+R)

•Click any where in the event row to highlight it.

•Choose Run Event from the Edit menu to activate (send) all event data to the designated destination. For example, when Run Event is selected while a snapshot event is highlighted, the snapshot data is instantly loaded into the D8B.

•Avoids having to run time code to preview the event.

Synchronize Events

Synchronize Events is used to match file data from the current opened session with the DSP patch files (EQ, Comp, Gate, Channel, Plug-in) on disks that are referenced by the Session’s Event Automation Track. In short, it is a ‘Disk to RAM’ correlation. DSP files that the Event track references may need to be resynchronized due to the files having been renamed, deleted, updated, or moved. An important thing to keep in mind is that a session saves all of the Event Automation Track parameters, whether or not the original referenced DSP files exist at all. This ‘safety net of reproduc- ibility’ was an important design issue; a session should completely reproduce snapshots and dynamic automation playback, regardless of file dependencies outside of a session.

Synchronize Events does not act upon snap- shots, because it does not directly reference snapshots from disk. Any changes to snapshots within a session operation will not be displayed as modified Event lines in the same manner as DSP patch file references.

D8B Manual • Chapter 3 • page 91