The Menus

Documentation / Contents - Audio Panel

• Overview of the Audio Panel
  • What It Controls, and What It Does Not
  • Two Faces
  • If There Is No Sound Card
• Anatomy of the Window
  • The Device Area
  • A Strip, Top to Bottom
  • The Control Rows
  • The Message Line
  • Selecting a Strip
• Setting Levels
  • The Faders
  • Group Sliders
  • Mute
  • Monitor
  • Meter
  • Sample Rate
  • What Is Not Persisted
• Meters, Peaks, and Clipping
  • Turning Them On
  • The dB Ladder
  • How They Move
  • When There Is No Signal
• Devices and Backends
  • Backends
  • The Default Input and Output
  • Choosing What Is Shown
  • Pinning a Device
  • Input Source and Output Destination
• The Menus
  • File
  • Selected
  • View
  • Options
  • Default
  • Help
  • The Button 3 Menu
• Dialogs
  • Open and Save As
  • Device Preferences
  • About
• Keys and the Command Line
  • Keys
  • The Headless Command Line
  • Diagnostics
    • Finding the Right Mixer Stage
• Settings and Files
  • The Configuration File
  • What Is Deliberately Not Saved
  • Environment Variables
• The Canonical Face
  • What Is Different
  • What Works
  • What Is Inert
  • Honest About Its Own Evidence
• The Audio Panel and Desktop Sounds
  • The Difference
  • Which One Do I Want

Other cards

• Copyright Information

The Menus

Six menus: File, Selected, View, Options, Default and Help. The accelerators below are those of the advanced face; see The Canonical Face for how the archival face differs.

File

Open...     Ctrl+O   read layout and state from a file
Save        Ctrl+S   write layout and state to a file
Save As...           write it to a file you name
Revert               back to factory settings
Exit        Ctrl+Q   quit

What is saved is LAYOUT and state: which strips are shown, the option toggles, the window position and the device pins. Gain, mute and rate are not saved; the hardware holds those.

A device pin read from a file takes effect at the next start, and the message line says so.

Selected

Acts on the selected strip.

Sample Rate      Ctrl+R   a submenu of seven rates
Input Source              a submenu; reads Output Destination on an output
Group Sliders             move left and right together; on by default
Make Default Input        reads Make Default Output on an output
Preferences...            the Device Preferences dialog

Sample Rate offers 8 kHz, 11.025 kHz, 16 kHz, 22.05 kHz, 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz. See the warning in Setting Levels.

View

Default Input      show the default input strip
Default Output     show the default output strip
<one per device>   show that device's strip
Show Device List   Ctrl+D

Options

Audio Queue Monitor          not wired yet
Professional Mode   Ctrl+P   show the sync source on each strip
Decibel Scale               display only, not yet the fader scale
Show Scrollbar     Ctrl+B    scroll the device area
Show Quick Help    Ctrl+H    the message line at the bottom

Professional Mode reveals the sync source line, which reads Internal.

Two entries here are honest about being incomplete. Audio Queue Monitor reports "not wired yet" and opens nothing. Decibel Scale sets a flag and says "display only"; the faders keep the 0 to 10 decade.

Default

Input    a submenu of input devices
Output   a submenu of output devices

Picking one makes it the default for that direction. With no devices in a direction the submenu holds one insensitive entry.

Help

Click for Help      Shift+F1
Overview
Adjusting Workstation Speaker Settings
Setting the Default Input and Output Signal Path
Selecting a Sample Rate
Adjusting the Input Levels
Displaying Controls for Additional Devices
Ungrouping Left and Right Volume Sliders
Enabling Stereo and Four Channel Mode
Synchronizing Audio Devices
About the Audio Panel Menus
Using Presenter Audio
Troubleshooting Audio Panel Problems
Index
Keys & Shortcuts
Product Information

This list is the IRIX panel's Help menu, kept verbatim. Any of the topic entries opens this book. Keys & Shortcuts is insensitive; its content is in Keys and the Command Line instead.

Click for Help does not yet arm a context-help mode; it prints a note to the message line.

Product Information opens the About box; see Dialogs.

The Button 3 Menu

Pressing button 3 on a strip selects it and posts a short menu:

Sample Rate
Group Sliders
Make Default
Preferences...

Its Sample Rate entry is greyed when that strip's Preferences have Sample Rate turned off.

Next

• Dialogs
• Keys and the Command Line