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<p>
- This tab contains settings that do not belong on the other tabs.
+ This tab contains settings that control the discovery and availability of
+ plugins.
</p>
<img src="/files/a4/a4_preferences_plugins.png" alt="preferences
<ul>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Scan for Plugins</strong>
+ <strong>Scan for Plugins</strong> will initiate an immediate scan of
+ the system for available plugins.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Allow Display Plugin Scan Progress</strong>
+ <strong>Always Display Plugin Scan Progress</strong> When enabled a
+ popup window showing plugin scan progress is displayed for indexing
+ (cache load) and discovery (detect new plugins).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Scan Time Out</strong>
+ <strong>Scan Time Out</strong> Specify the default timeout for plugin
+ instantiation in 1/10 seconds. Plugins that require more time to load
+ will be blacklisted. A value of 0 disables the timeout.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Clear VST Cache</strong>
+ <strong>Clear VST Cache</strong> Remove all VST plugins from the list
+ of plugins available to be inserted into the processor box.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Clear VST Blacklist</strong>
+ <strong>Clear VST Blacklist</strong> Make blacklisted VST plugins
+ available to be added to the processor box.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Scan for [new] VST Plugins on Application Start</strong>
+ <strong>Scan for [new] VST Plugins on Application Start</strong> When
+ enabled new VST plugins are searched, tested and added to the cache
+ index on application start. When disabled new plugins will only be
+ available after triggering a 'Scan' manually.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Linux VST Path:</strong>
+ <strong>Linux VST Path:</strong> Launch a dialog to manage the
+ directories that will be searched for Linux VST plugins.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Use name highlight bars in region display</strong>
+ <strong>Use name highlight bars in region display</strong> When enabled the
+ region name is displayed, in the editor, in it's own bar at the bottom of
+ the region. When disabled, the region name is display at the top of the
+ region, possibly over audio waveforms or MIDI notes.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Font scaling</strong>
+ <strong>Font scaling</strong> allows the display size of some text in the
+ user interface to be scaled up or down. May require a restart to take
+ affect.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Update transport clock display at FPS</strong>
+ <strong>Update transport clock display at FPS</strong> when enabled the transport clock
+ will update at the synchronization framerate instead of the default 100 ms rate.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Lock timeout</strong>
+ <strong>Lock timeout</strong> Lock GUI after this many idle seconds (zero to never
+ lock). GUI may also be locked with <kbd class="menu">Session > Lock</kbd>. When
+ locked a dialog will display a "Click to unlock" button.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
- <strong>Mixer Strip</strong>
+ <strong>Mixer Strip</strong> Enable (checked) or disable (unchecked) display of
+ controls in the mixer strip. Controls whose display can be toggled are
+ <strong>Input</strong>, <strong>Phase Invert</strong>,
+ <strong>Record & Monitor</strong>, <strong>Solo Iso/Lock</strong>,
+ <strong>Output</strong>, and <strong>Comments</strong>.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Use narrow strips in the mixer by default</strong> When enabled, new mixer
+ strips are created in narrow format. When disabled, they are created in wide format.
+ Existing mixer strips width can be toggled with the width control at the top left of
+ the mixer stip.
</p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Input</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Phase Invert</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Record & Monitor</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Solo Iso/Lock</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Output</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Comments</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- <li>
- <p>
- <strong>Use narrow strips in the mixer by default</strong>
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
</li>
</ul>