quick help? need to undo some wierd change in behavior (pic)

cleantone · Post by **cleantone** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:18 am

I am not even sure the terms to be used to describe so I had to take a couple of snaps. I must be inadvertently key stroking something to change a behavior I do not know about.

I use DP for mixing and playback. No composing, MIDI, or anything else. I have had this happen a few times and I need to know what keystroke I am accidentally using and more importantly how to reverse it.

Typically if I have the view to "volume" and click the line to make a change it will display the volume value above like this [-5.00]:

Normally you can click on that and enter a new value. I find this a lot faster that writing automation or dragging the clicked spot to another value manually. That is done countless time by me in a mix. Once and a while I must do an accidental quick key that I do now even know about. When this happens I cannot select the volume value in the window. Instead no matter where I click it opens this note value box as shown here:

I really need to figure out what the heck I do to make that happen and again most importantly how to get it back to the default I need. I mix full concert sets and typically do this quite a lot in a session. It's once in a while that out of seemingly nowhere I cannot select or change the volume data the way I normally do.

Anyone know why that is?

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:45 am

Never seen that. I tried to make it happen, but no luck. Er... no BAD luck! So, some ideas come to mind:

••• When it happens, click Command-D to deselect everything. If there is something selected that's causing it, that will fix it.
••• Check the Undo History for clues. (it's a long shot, but what else are you going to do?)
••• Try selecting a note value and see if the box goes away. If so, then check Undo History again and see if anything new shows up.

I assume you've done your best to remember all your recent actions to no avail. I'm drawing a complete blank on that one. Maybe someone else has a clue. Just out of curiosity, what version of DP are you using? If it's 5.12, I'd upgrade to 5.13.

Shooshie

Kubi · Post by **Kubi** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:55 am

Trash your preferences. Had similar weirdness in the past, and that always did it.

cleantone · Post by **cleantone** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:08 pm

Thanks guys. I also just noticed that simply closing and reopening the session does the trick. I had thought that is would stay that way when I reopened but it doesn't. If anyone knows what it is please post. Thanks!

Dave Bourke · Post by **Dave Bourke** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:15 pm

Those pop-ups in the info bar are way off anyway. I find it intensely annoying that I have to click well to the left of the parameter to get the correct edit pop-up. Very poor finishing by MOTU. I certainly hope this is fixed in DP6.

kind regards.

Spikey Horse · Post by **Spikey Horse** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:46 pm

Also the cursor L,R keys moving you between parameters instead of moving the actual text cursor is a pain IMO.

jborum · Post by **jborum** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:50 pm

That's the menu that goes along with the Unit button, and it sets the grid value for editing. The unit button and the grid value are at the far right of the little bar you took a snapshot of. Control-G toggles the grid on and off, and the default is a quarter note.