User guide

NEW FEATURES IN DIGITAL PERFORMER 7.24
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NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 7.2
Contextual menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Open Sound Control (OSC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Live search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Other changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CONTEXTUAL MENUS
Contextual menus have been added throughout Digital
Performer to provide convenient access to frequently used
commands and options.
Figure 2: The contextual menu for an audio selection in the Sequence Editor
To access the contextual menu, click with the right mouse
button or hold the Control key and click with the left mouse
button.
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Existing behaviors which utilize clicking while holding
the Control key take precedence over the contextual menu.
That is, when Control-click is already used in a particular
context for a different function, you must use right-click to
access the contextual menu.
Contextual menu items
The menu items shown in the contextual menu will depend
on the context, as the name implies. For example, if you
right-click on a selection of audio data in the Sequence
Editor (as shown in Figure 2), you will see contextual menu
items for moving and editing audio data, opening the data in
other windows, and Sequence Editor track options. Some
menu items may be unavailable temporarily (grayed out)
depending on the kind of selection you have made, which
layer is active, whether there is any data on the clipboard, and
so on.
All items that appear in the contextual menus are available
elsewhere as regular menu items, mini-menu items,
keyboard shortcuts, and so on. That is, the contextual menu
is never the only place to find a command or option.
Object selections
When there is object-selected data (such as MIDI notes,
soundbites, and so on), right-clicking directly on the
selected items will open the contextual menu for those items.
However, in cases where it is difficult to click directly on a
small object, so you may also right-click in the empty space
above or below the selection in the same track.
For example, say you have selected multiple MIDI notes, the
first of which starts at 13|1|000 and the last of which ends at
16|3|240 (Figure 3). The contextual menu for those selected
notes can be invoked by right-clicking on any of the selected
notes, or in any empty space in that track between 13|1|000
and 16|3|240. If you right-click before 13|1|000 or after
16|3|240, or directly on an unselected note, the original
selection will be deselected.
Figure 3: Opening the contextual menu for a selection of MIDI notes