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The Harmonizer

Programmer’s Manual

CREATING THE USER INTERFACE

The Patch Editor automatically creates PARAMETER area menu pages for most modules when they are

inserted by connecting their userobjects to the head module. You can create a wealth of programs this

way. In the PARAMETER area, parameters will automatically be grouped by module and SOFT KEYS

will appear -one per module. A program created this way will be fully functional and have all of the

audio characteristics of a factory preset. Audio, however, is where the similarities end. A program

created using the “automatic menu system” will not look as slick, nor be as easy to use, as the factory

presets are. Factory presets are created by hand-connecting the userobjects of knob modules to

menupage modules and then hand-connecting the userobjects of those menupage modules to the

head module. This chapter details how this is done.

Viewing Menupages and Menupage Modules

A menupage module has a single userobject and any number

of userobject inputs. Normally a menupage module is

connected to the head module. If so, the menupage module

shows up in the PARAMETER area as one or more pages of

parameters, a title line, and a SOFT KEY. The information for

the title line and SOFT KEY and the list of connected userobjects that comprise the parameters seen in the

PARAMETER area are accessible by using the <modify> SOFT KEY on the menupage module. For

example, load the program Patch Instruct from the “Programming” bank.

The menu page shown above is visible in the PARAMETER area. It is created with a menupage

module, a knob module, a monitor module, and a textblock module (we’ll see how in a minute).

Pressing and holding the PARAMETER key will access the Patch

Editor area. Do so and then press the <aud only> SOFT KEY to

get the screen shown to the right. From this display the knob

(knb) module and monitor (mon) module are visible. Both

are visible in this display mode because they have one or more control inputs or outputs. The

menupage and textblock modules have neither so they will only be visible in the

misc display

mode. Press the <aud+ctrl> SOFT KEY twice to view the program in the misc display mode.

The three modules, head (hed), menupage (mnu), and

textblock (txt) can now be seen. Pressing the LEFT or

RIGHT CURSOR key will select one of the modules. Select the

menupage module and then press the

<modify> SOFT KEY.

From here, we can see the

description “delay control” and

the 8 char name “DelayCtl."

Note that these equate to the title and SOFT KEY when the menu

page is viewed in the

PARAMETER area.

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