HD24/96 Technical Reference

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virtual takes, and regions. The right section, which can be opened or closed, depending on what you want to see at the moment, contains the List Panel (see page 20).

Track Area Scrolling Conventions

The vertical and horizontal scroll bars that frame the track area are standard GUI tools. Scroll thumb buttons (resembling console fader knobs) appear along the scroll bar whenever the track screen is expanded so that there are more tracks than are visible on the screen. Click and drag these buttons to bring another group of tracks or regions into view.

Small + and - buttons at the lower right corner of the track area (one pair on each axis) adjust the horizontal and vertical magnification of the track area. They duplicate the larger arrow buttons at the left edge of the Time/Marker bar.

Track View Controls

The Zoom Arrows at the left end of the time bar are used for adjusting the horizontal and vertical scale of the track view. When the track is expanded to display Virtual takes, the eight takes follow the action of these buttons in the same manner as the single (collapsed) track view.

The Up and Down arrows change the vertical magnification, resizing so that the desired number of tracks are displayed on screen. A minimum of 2 and maximum of 24 track spaces may be displayed. Tracks are displayed contiguously (you can’t display just tracks 3, 8, 17 and 22), and the track display can be scrolled vertically through all the tracks (when fewer than 24 are visible) by using the scroll button at the right end of the track area.

The Left and Right Zoom arrows expand or contract the time scale. The horizontal scroll button at the bottom of the display moves the tracks horizontally along the time scale.

Zoom Tricks

The Z (Dive) key is used to perform a quick zoom at the current cursor location. It only zooms while the key is held down.

The magnifier buttons (the small + and - buttons) on the scroll bars framing lower right corner of the track area act in the same manner as the Zoom arrows. They are placed for convenience and as a normal GUI windowing convention.

A keyboard shortcut to the zoom arrows is Ctrl + any of the keyboard arrow keys.

A keyboard shortcut to the scroll buttons is the Alt + any of the keyboard arrow keys.

The Magnifier icon in the Tools panel changes the cursor into a magnifying glass. This Magnifier cursor can be dragged over the area of interest to zoom in to a highly detailed view of a small area.

Auto Scroll

When Auto-scroll is enabled, the current time line jumps to the center of the screen and the tracks scroll behind it as the transport plays. When disabled, the track area remains fixed on the screen and the current time cursor moves along the tracks as the transport plays. At lower resolutions, with Auto-Scroll off, when the current time cursor reaches the right edge of the screen, it jumps back to the left edge, the track area jumps one screen width, and the cursor makes another sweep. At high zoom resolution, the cursor