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94 lines
3.5 KiB
HTML
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<p>
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The <dfn>Plugin Selector</dfn> serves two purposes. Primarily it is used to
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control the display status of plugins. It can also be used to find and insert
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plugins into the <a href="@@processor-box">Processor Box</a>. It is
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displayed either by a double-click in the <dfn>Processor Box</dfn> or by
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choosing <kbd class="menu">New Plugin > Plugin Selector…</kbd>
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from the <dfn>Processor Box</dfn> context menu.
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Displayed for each plugin is the status (favorite, hidden),
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name, tags, creator (author), type, and the number of audio and MIDI
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connections. The plugins can be sorted by clicking on a column header.
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<figure class=center>
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<img src="/images/plugin-selector.png" alt="The Plugin Selector window"/>
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<figcaption class=center>The Plugin Selector window.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h2>Plugin Display Status</h2>
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Clicking on a <em>Fav</em>(orite) or <em>Hide</em> radio button changes
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a plugin's display status.
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Clicking on an already selected radio button will cancel it, returning the
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plugin to the normal display status. Plugins marked as a favorite show up in
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the <dfn>Processor Box</dfn> context menu under
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<kbd class="menu">New Plugin > Favorites</kbd> and in the
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<a href="@@favorite-plugins-window">Favorite Plugins window</a>. Setting the hide
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radio button on a plugin will keep the plugin from showing in the
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<dfn>Processor Box</dfn> context menus
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<kbd class="menu">New Plugin > By Creator</kbd> or
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<kbd class="menu">New Plugin > By Category</kbd>.
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<h2>Filtering Listed Plugins</h2>
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The bottom left part of the <dfn>Plugin Selector</dfn> is used to filter the listed
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plugins.
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The center <dfn>Filter</dfn> column allows to show only some of the plugins, based
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on what they are, their properties, format, creator...
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Moreover, direct text search are available in the the Search text-field
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on the bottom left. Only the plugins that match <em>all</em> the search terms
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(space separated) will show up in the upper list.
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This textual search can be matched against Name and/or Tags by checking
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the relevant momentary buttons under the search field.
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<kbd class="menu">Ignore Filters when searching</kbd> displays all the matching
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plugins, regardless of the active <em>Filters</em>.
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<h2>Tags</h2>
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Tags are text labels that can be used to mark a plugin. They are totally
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free in their content, allowing the user to mark a plugin with whatever
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info is relevant to him, but cannot include spaces (as spaces are used
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to separate tags) or special characters except dashes, colons and underscores.
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<p>
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Adding or removing tags is as simple as editing the <dfn>Tags for Selected Plugin</dfn>
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field while the targeted plugin is selected.
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Ardour comes with a large selection of tags for provided or usual plugins,
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that are used by default but can be modified at will. It is possible to
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go back to this "standard" tagging for a plugin by clicking the
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<kbd class="menu">Reset</kbd> button.
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</p>
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<h2>Inserting Plugins in the Processor Box</h2>
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The bottom-right part of the Plugin Selector <dfn>Plugins to be connected</dfn>
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shows plugins that have been selected for insertion into the
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<dfn>Processor Box</dfn>. A plugin can be added by either double clicking
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the plugin entry in the top part, or, if already selected in top left part,
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by clicking the <kbd class="menu">Add</kbd> button.
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Plugins can be removed from the right part with a double click, or, if
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already selected, by clicking <kbd class="menu">Remove</kbd>.
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</p>
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