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636 Chapter 12: Animation
Star t/Stop Trigger Setup dialog
Preset s—Choose the t ype of M IDI dev ice. If you
chooseMediaControlStation2,youcanuseits
buttons to Stop, Play, and Record. (The Media
Cont rol Station is a MIDI device containing
standard VCR-sty le playback buttons along with a
jog wheel.) By choosing Custom, you enable the
remainingspinnersinthedialog,whereyoucan
set specific channels and note n umbers. You can
also use Custom to customize t he controls used by
the Media Control Station.
Channel—Specifies the channel to which your
MIDI device is assigned.
Note Number—The Stop, Play, and Record spinners
that follow this label let you spe cify which note
event triggers which function.
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Stop—This note event stops the playback or
therecording.OntheMediaControlStation,
this would be the square button. This is the
equivalent of clicking the Stop button under the
Record Controls group.
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Play—Plays the animation. This is the arrow
button on the Media Control Station.
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Record—When t his note is sent by itself, it’s the
equivalent of clicking the Test button under
Record Controls. To record the motion capture,
youmustpressbothPlayandRecordatthe
same time (the equivalent of clicking the Start
button under Record Controls). You can press
the Play button before or after the Record
button and release the Play button before or
after the Record button. The r ecording starts
when the button is released.
Tracks group
TheTracksareadisplaysalltracksthathavebeen
assigned Motion Capture con trollers. You select
thetracksthatwillbeaffectedbythethreebuttons
in the Record Controls group. Click a track to
toggle its selection box on or off. Only the selected
tracks displaying the red box are affected by the
Record Controls group.
You can select the tracks either by clicking them, or
by using the All, Invert, None buttons. In addition,
you can create named selection sets of tracks. To
create a named selection, click the tracks you want,
and then enter a name in the Edit field above the
track list. To selec t a previously named set, open
theEditwindow,andselectitfromthelist. To
delete a named set, select it from the list, and then
click the Delete button at the right.
Note: Aspecifictrackcanbeinonlyonenamed
selection at a time.