{"id":200,"date":"2011-04-11T23:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2011-04-11T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T23:13:34","slug":"drumspillage-user-interface-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"DrumSpillage User Interface Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimising workflow is a common concern in today&#8217;s world and one of the motivating factors behind a number of user interface shortcuts built right into DrumSpillage.<\/p>\n<h3>Copy and Paste Pad Operations<\/h3>\n<p>Swapping pads in the user interface is as simple as dragging pad A over to pad B and releasing the mouse. The two pads will now swap positions. As you drag a pad a ghost image of the pad will appear labelled <strong>&#8216;move&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/MoveDrag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318 alignnone\" title=\"MoveDrag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/MoveDrag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duplicating pads is just as simple but requires you to hold down the <strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> key whilst dragging pads around the interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/CopyDrag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"CopyDrag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/CopyDrag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the copy shortcut you can easily duplicate pads within the DrumSpillage interface which is very useful when you want to create a group of related pads with slightly different characteristics, for example, toms or hi-hats. This feature can also be used to backup a pad before experimenting with the original.<\/p>\n<h3>Solo and Mute Switches<\/h3>\n<p>Two more modifier key shortcuts are also available for each pad trigger. To mute the pad without having to hit the power on\/off button simply hold down the <strong>Shift(\u21e7)<\/strong> key and click the pad&#8217;s trigger button. The pad will be powered on\/off depending on its current state. Likewise, to quickly toggle the solo button hold down the <strong>Command(\u2318)<\/strong> key whilst clicking a pad&#8217;s trigger button. These two short cuts are excellent for live use and also fully supported by host automation systems.<\/p>\n<h3>Solo And Mute Groups<\/h3>\n<p>When several pads are muted (power off) holding down <strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> and clicking on any one of the muted pad&#8217;s power buttons will bring all pads back online. The pad trigger shortcut works here too; simply hold down <strong>Shift(\u21e7)<\/strong>+<strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> whilst clicking on one of the muted pad&#8217;s trigger buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Solo groups work in a similar fashion. When multiple pads are solo&#8217;d holding down <strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> whilst clicking one of the solo buttons resets all currently solo&#8217;d pads. Again, the pad trigger shortcut works here too; hold down <strong>Command(\u2318)<\/strong>+<strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> whilst clicking on one of the solo&#8217;d pad&#8217;s trigger buttons to reset the entire kit.<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to switch from a group of solo&#8217;d pads to a single solo&#8217;d pad. For example, if the top row of pads are all solo&#8217;d you can reset the entire kit whilst selecting a new pad to solo by clicking on the new pad&#8217;s solo button whilst holding down the <strong>Alt(\u2325)<\/strong> key.<\/p>\n<h3>Pad Editor Views<\/h3>\n<p>Each pad has 4 available view modes. There may be times when you would like to switch all 16 pads into the same view mode. To achieve this use the <strong>Command(\u2318)<\/strong> key whilst selecting a new view mode for any of the 16 pads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/PadViewMode.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-320\" title=\"PadViewMode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/PadViewMode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Fine Grained Control<\/h3>\n<p>Not strictly a shortcut but the <strong>Command(<strong>\u2318<\/strong>)<\/strong> key can be used to make fine grained adjustments to most interface controls (prior to version 1.4 this function was assigned to the <strong>Shift(\u21e7)<\/strong> key). Sliders, number boxes, graphic editors (e.g. filters and envelopes) all support this modifier key.<\/p>\n<h3>MIDI Key Zones<\/h3>\n<p>DrumSpillage features a fully configurable MIDI key zone for each pad defined by a low, root and high MIDI key group. During typical usage all three values will be assigned to the same key. To easily transpose the entire MIDI zone hold down the <strong>Command(\u2318)<\/strong> key whilst dragging one of the key values up or down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/MIDIZone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-321\" title=\"MIDIZone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shortcuts\/MIDIZone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimising workflow is a common concern in today&#8217;s world and one of the motivating factors behind a number of user interface shortcuts built right into DrumSpillage. Copy and Paste Pad Operations Swapping pads in the user interface is as simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/?p=200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,35,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiospillage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}