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- The Main Menu is made of 8 menus that allow the user to interact with Ardour, and below is a reference of all the menu actions. + The Main Menu allows the user to interact with Ardour and may + appear daunting at first. Below is a reference of all the menus and submenus. +
+ ++ Most of these menus, and probably all of the most used + ones, have keyboard shortcuts to make using them easier and faster. A + summary of these shortcuts can be found on the Defaults Keyboard Bindings + page, and every menu in Ardour can be reassigned to an user defined + key binding, or used via OSC with a control surface.
- Notice that a lot of these menus, and probably all of the most used ones, have keyboard shortcuts to make using them easier and faster. - A summary of these shortcuts can be found on the Defaults Keyboard Bindings page, and - every menu in Ardour can be reassigned to an user defined key binding, or used via OSC with - a control surface. + Some menu items placement may depend on the OS, e.g. the "About" + window may not be in the Help menu on Mac + systems.
diff --git a/include/the-edit-menu.html b/include/the-edit-menu.html index 941f8d48..b2c153a4 100644 --- a/include/the-edit-menu.html +++ b/include/the-edit-menu.html @@ -49,6 +49,11 @@| □ About | Shows the About Ardour window, which contains information about the version, config, authors,and license of Ardour |
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| □ About | Shows the About Ardour window, which contains information about the version, config, authors, and license of Ardour |
| Chat | This is a shortcut to the webchat version of the Freenode IRC channel of Ardour, where the developers meet, and questions can be asked if the Manual is not enough |
| Tutorial | Link to a FLOSSManual guide to Ardour |
| Reference | Link to this manual, hosted on ardour.org |
| Legatize | Shortens or elongates the MIDI notes to make them perfectly sequential, i.e. the end of a note is the start of the following one |
| Remove Overlap | Shortens or elongates the MIDI notes to make them perfectly sequential, i.e. the end of a note is the start of the following one |
| Transform… | Transform window, that allows for mathematical operations on the midi notes |
| Unlink from Other copies | Makes the selected MIDI region independent, e.g. editing this region won't affect any other one. |
| Unlink all selected regions | Makes the selected MIDI regions independent, e.g. editing this region won't affect any other one. |
| Unlink from unselected | Makes the selected MIDI regions independent from regions outside the selection, but keep the link between the selected ones. |
| Deinterlace Into Layers | Splits the selected region(s) to create in-place copies each containing only one channel. A region containing e.g. 3 channels will generate 3 stacked regions containing 1 channel each. |
| List Editor… | Shows the List Editor which sequentially lists all the MIDI events in the region, and allows for precise modifications |
| Gain | |
| □ Opaque | When checked, makes the region opaque audio-wise, i.e., the underlying regions won't be audible |
| Large | Same as above, but again less high |
| Normal | Sets the height of the track to its default value which is a trade-off between readability and number of tracks displayed |
| Small | Reduces the size of the tracks to a low value, increasing the number of on screen tracks |
| Toggle Layer Display | Toggles the selected track(s) visual layering display between overlaid and stacked |
| Toggle Active | Toggles the active state of a track. An inactive track will be grayed and won't play any sound. That can be seen in the A column of the Tracks and Busses List |
| Remove | Deletes this track and its playlist (no file is harmed in the process, and the regions from the playlist stay in the Editor for later use) |
| □ Maximise Editor Space | Puts the Editor window in full screen mode |
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| □ Maximize Mixer Space | Puts the Mixer window in full screen mode |
| Region Layers | |
| Stacked Layer Display | When multiple takes are available, this will display them on top of one another |
| Overlaid Layer Display | When multiple takes are available, the most recent one will be displayed on top of older ones |
| Automation | |
| Toggle All Existing Automation | Show or hides all the automation lanes that have been edited by the user |
| Toggle Layer Display | Toggles all the track(s) visual layering display between overlaid and stacked |
| Primary Clock | |
| Focus On Clock | Sets the focus on the main clock, allowing to type in numbers directly to change the playhead position |
| Timecode | Sets the main clock in timecode mode, so it displays time in the Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames format |
| □ Bars & Beats | Same as the above, with the time formatted as Bars:Beats:Ticks |
| □ Time Signature | Shows / hides the time signature line in the ruler, where the signature can be adjusted along the playline |
| □ Tempo | Shows / hides the Tempo line, where the BPM can be changed with markers |
| □ Ranges | Shows / hides the Range line, where ranges can be defined |
| □ Loop/Punch | Shows / hides the Loop/Punch line, where loops and Punches can be defined |
| □ Range Markers | Shows / hides the Range line, where ranges can be defined |
| □ Loop/Punch Ranges | Shows / hides the Loop/Punch line, where loops and Punches can be defined |
| □ CD Markers | Shows / hides the Range line, where CD Markers can be defined |
| □ Markers | Shows / hides the Markers line, where custom markers can be defined |
| □ Location Markers | Shows / hides the Markers line, where custom markers can be defined |
| □ Cue markers | Shows / hides the Cue line, where Cue markers can be set to trigger entire cues |
| □ Video | Shows / hides the Video timeline, where frames of the video are shown for syncing purposes |
| □ Video Timeline | Shows / hides the Video timeline, where frames of the video are shown for syncing purposes |
| Zoom | |
| Zoom In | Zooms in, focusing the Zoom Focus (see below) |
| Zoom Out | Zooms out |
| Scroll Tracks Up | Same as above, towards the top |
| Scroll Forward | Scrolls the view toward the right of the session from one screen (horizontally, so along time) |
| Scroll Backward | Same as above, to the left |
| Video Monitor | |
| Original Size | When the Video Monitor is active, resets its size to the original size, i.e. 1 pixel in the video is 1 pixel on screen |
| □ Letterbox | When checked, forces the ratio (width/height) to be the one of the original video. If unchecked, the video will be stretched to fit the window |
| □ Timecode | When checked, displays a Timecode over the video, in the Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames format |
| □ Frame number | When checked, shows the absolute frame number inside the video, i.e. this image is the nth of the video |
| □ Timecode Background | Adds a black background to the timecode for readability |
| Editor Views | |
| Save View n | Saves the position on the timeline in the memory, horizontally and vertically (along time and tracks) |
| Go to View n | Loads and displays a saved position (see above) |
| Show Mixer/Hide/Attach/Detach | Same as for the Editor, for the Mixer window |
| Recorder | |
| Show Recorder/Hide/Attach/Detach | Same as for the Editor, for the Recorder window |
| Cue Grid | |
| Show Cues/Hide/Attach/Detach | Same as for the Editor, for the Cue Grid window |
| Preferences | |
| Show/Hide/Attach/Detach | Same as for the Editor, for the Preferences window |
| Meterbridge | Shows the Meterbridge window, that displays all the tracks' meter at once and their recording status, and is very handy for multitrack recording |
| □ Big Clock | Opens the Main Clock as its own separate (and huge) window, which is helpful when recording |
| □ Transport Controls | Opens a floating Transport Bar as its own separate window |
| □ Virtual Keyboard | Opens up the virtual MIDI keyboard. If a MIDI track is selected (or many), this keyboard can be used as an hardware device would. |
| □ Library Downloader | Opens up the Library Downloader which allows to download royalty free loopable material from kind people at Looperman. |
| □ Video Monitor | If a video has been imported in the session, opens a video window (namely, Xjadeo), synced to the timeline |
| □ Bundle Manager | Opens the Bundle Manager window, allowing to create and manage Bundles, which are a way to simplify connection management, by defining groups of ports |
| □ Plugin Manager | Opens the Plugin Manager, a dedicated tool to deal with plugins, add new ones, and troubleshoot all plugin-related issues |
| □ I/O Plugins | Opens the I/O Plugins window, to add I/O plugins, i.e. plugins that are applied before or after all processing, "outside" the session. |
| Scripting | Opens the Script console window where LUA scripts can be edited and run |
| Templates | Opens the Template Manager window, for both sessions and tracks templates managment |