User Guide

CHAPTER 6
Mapping
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On the borders of the Zone the mouse pointer looks like this (upper border, for example):
You can now resize the Zone in the direction of the arrow. Using the borders of a Zone you can scale
the Zone either in the x-axis OR the y-axis.
HINT: If you select one or multiple Zones, then click on the left or right border of the selection
and then press and hold the SHIFT Key (Mac OS X and Windows XP) before you resize
your selection horizontally, any overlap of Zones is blocked. The mouse pointer
will change its color from blue into white during this process.
Invisible features
„Zone Positioner“:
If you select one or multiple Zones and drag them to a position that abuts horizontally or vertically
to a border of the Mapping window, the selected Zones do not overlap immediately but snap in first.
Only with a stronger movement of the mouse the Zones begin to overlap.
The same applies to the horizontal movement of one or multiple zone. To avoid incessant changes
of the vertical position during a horizontal movement or copy of multiple Zones you have to move
your mouse pointer with a larger vertical distance from the original position to move the Zones also
vertically. Of course this works the same way for the stability of vertical movements of Zones.
The drag‘n‘drop functionality and the keyboard shortcuts enable you to create, edit and customize
the mapping of your instruments in just a few seconds. Just try all the different features we
explained so far: copy and paste Zones, move them, resize them and let them overlap and you will
recognize how easy-to-use, intuitively and user friendly the work with Independence‘s Mapping
Editor is!
Mapping parameters
Root Key:
Sets the basic tune of one or multiple Zones. If you load a tonal instrument (guitar, for example) all
Zones must have the same Root Key so the instrument is playable in its original tune. Of course you
can also assign different Root Keys to different Zones.