Metric Halo SpectraFoo - Manual (Page 16)

SpectraFoo Basics
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For the real-time rack window, you have an additional way of controlling the enable and solo states of the
instruments in the rack. You can set up predefined groups of enabled instruments using the commands found in
the group menu. This allows you to quickly and easily “switch modes” as far as where your attention is focussed.
These instrument groups only effect instruments in the consolidated Real Time Rack view described below.
Even though these are called “Instrument Groups” they have no connection to the Link Groups described
above.
Figure 2.6: Instrument Groups Menu – Only applies to instruments in the Real Time Rack
• Add to Group Library… Takes a snapshot of all of the current settings of the power and solo buttons. A
dialog box will appear allowing you to name the group. When you name the configuration, you may
use the slash key (/) followed by the character of your choice to create a command key to recall the
group. For example, you have a group you want to name My Scene. If you type My Scene/0 as the name,
you may recall this configuration by pressing Command-0.
• Delete from Group Library… Deletes a group from the menu. A dialog box will appear with a pop-up
menu that contains all of your currently saved groups. Select the group that you wish to delete from the
menu. Click OK to delete - click cancel to abort the delete operation.
• Group Library entries: These items make up the Group library. Items can be added to or deleted from
the library at any time.
The Real Time Rack
SpectraFoo provides a two-channel consolidated “Real Time Rack” view that contains all of the instruments
in one convenient window. When you use this view, the Spectragram, Spectragraph and Oscilloscope instru-
ments have linking buttons that allow you to either stereo link the control parameters between the left and
right channel instruments, or to link the control parameters of the Spectragram and Spectragraph of the same
channel. These linking buttons are very similar in concept to the link feature that appears on good-quality
stereo compressors. For example, the stereo link button on the Spectragraph allows you to ensure that both
the left and right channel Spectragraph instruments use the same frequency calibration. When instruments are
stereo linked, the parameters for both channels can be controlled from either the left or right channel details
window. These linking features are currently only available in the Real Time Rack consolidated view. For
the individual instruments available from the Master Controls window, you can use the Link Group system
described on the previous page for linking instruments.