MACKIE HDR 24/96 - Manual (Page 17)

HD24/96 Technical Reference 17
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