User Guide

Table of Contents
Welcome
.................................................................................................................................... 10
Installation & Product Activation ............................................................................ 15
Independence system requirements ............................................................................... 15
Available Interfaces for Independence .......................................................................... 15
Installing Independence for Mac OS X ......................................................................... 16
Installing Independence for Windows XP .................................................................... 18
Yellow Tools Authorization Key ...................................................................................... 20
Yellow Tools Key Manager - Activating Independence ............................................. 21
Architecture & Operation ............................................................................................. 27
Projects, Layer Sets, Layers, Alternates, Sections & Zones .................................... 27
Zone ................................................................................................................................... 27
Section ................................................................................................................................ 27
Alternate ............................................................................................................................. 27
Layer .................................................................................................................................. 27
Layer Set ............................................................................................................................ 27
Project ................................................................................................................................ 27
General Operation .............................................................................................................. 29
Input Fields ........................................................................................................................ 29
Pull-Down Menus .............................................................................................................. 29
Buttons ............................................................................................................................... 29
User Interface & Basics ................................................................................................... 30
Project Area .......................................................................................................................... 31
Layer Set Area ...................................................................................................................... 33
Layer Area ............................................................................................................................. 34
MIDI Programs ................................................................................................................. 38
Pre-cache ........................................................................................................................... 39
Auto-Mapping-Import ....................................................................................................... 40
X-Y-Z Mapping .......................................................................................................... 41
Multi Key Mapping .................................................................................................... 41
Chromatic Mapping ...................................................................................................
42
One Key Mapping ...................................................................................................... 42
Basic Settings ..................................................................................................................... 43
Read Model ........................................................................................................................ 43
Tune Model ........................................................................................................................ 44
MIDI Basics Settings ......................................................................................................... 46
MIDI Extended Settings .................................................................................................... 46
Dynamic Range Settings ................................................................................................... 47
Polyphony Settings ............................................................................................................ 49