Direct mode and digipots – Grass Valley Kayak HD v.6.9.3 User Manual

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Section 5 — Kayak Menu Summaries

the screen. Wait objects of type “Wait number of frames” (i.e. hold) are
drawn as a triangle with a following dotted line representing the hold time,
similar to the hold time of keyframes.

Loops are visualized with an arrow below the keyframes, pointing from the
loop end to the loop begin. The arrow is superimposed with a circle con-
taining the loop count (or “inf” for infinite loops).

The edit cursor is shown as a vertical yellow line, while the currently
selected object is drawn in red.

When

Show Text

is selected, timeline data is displayed as text (

Figure 253

).

Figure 253. E-MEM – Timeline – Show Text

Direct Mode and Digipots

These controls know two modes,

Direct Mode On

and

Direct Mode Off

. In

Direct

Mode On

, the most frequently needed functions are accessible with a single

button press, while non-direct mode offers the complete spectrum of func-
tionality at the cost of more button presses necessary for each action.

Steps digipot

The

Steps

digipot allows to move the edit cursor. This automatically

activates edit mode. The edit cursor can only be placed on timeline
objects (keyframes, triggers, waits, loops), not between keyframes.

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