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Playback Bar
The playback bar sets the position and view depth of the current prime dimension.
The functionality is duplicated from the prime view position
slider, but it is larger and it syncronizes visually with the axes of
the Envelope, Spectrum Filter, and Time Surface editing panels.
View Position
The view position sets three things:
1. The visual audition values of the time, key, mod, and pan.
These values are used to show the waveform surface in the particular state. For example, to see the spectrogram of the preset at note C5 and mod position 0, you just set the position sliders to those values and the display automatically refreshes.
2. The origin of selection.
When selecting, Cycle identifies which vertex is closest to the mouse pointer.
The mouse pointer only gives two coordinates--usually these are (phase, amplitude) in 2D editing panels and (time, phase) in 3D editing panels. The view position provides the rest of the coordinates of the polar dimensions.
Suppose you have a few intercept lines that make a filter peak in the harmonic amplitude spectrum, and you want to reduce its amplitude with respect to frequency. The steps to do this are:
a) Move the key slider to the high end
b) Make sure Link Key is disabled (see
Linking).
In this state,
selection will choose the high-pole key vertices as they are closest
to the new origin.
c) In the 2D spectrum editor, reduce the amplitude position of the appropriate vertices
3. The depths and offsets of new vertex cubes.
The current slider positions are used as offsets for new vertex cubes, in each respective dimension of the sliders .
View depths are the values used for the dimensions (in the sense of size) of new vertex cubes. Additionally, the view depth of the current prime dimension sets the visible depth of the waveform waterfall.
When you add an intercept path, behind the scenes a new vertex cube is created.
The span of the newly created vertex cube in the polar dimensions is determined by two things:
a) if the slider's line depth button is toggled on, and
b) the view depth of the respective slider
If the slider's line depth button is disabled, new cubes are created with defaults for depth and offset, for that slider's dimension. The default depth is 1; the default offset, 0.
To adjust the view depth on a slider, right click and drag on the slider.