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The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is everything you see on the screen, that is all the windows, editors, buttons, sliders, scrollbars, etc..., which are called the GUI components.
The GUI is the interface by which you tell MU.LAB what you want to do.
Most of these GUI components work as usual.
But some components have an alternative and/or extended functionality.
Whenever an alert box pops up, you can choose one of the button options by clicking on it (of course), but also by pressing the first character of that option.
So for example for this alert:
Pressing Q = Quit without Save
Pressing S = Save before Quit
Pressing C = Cancel
Whenever there is a "Cancel" option, you can also always press ESC to cancel.
Above are examples of a knob and a slider. Knobs and sliders work almost in the same way:
- Click on it and drag up-down OR left-right will tweak the knob/slider. For a vertical slider you can only drag up-down of course.
- When you hold Ctrl while dragging, the changes are much finer.
- When you hold Shift while dragging, the changes are much extreme.
- When you hold Shift when you click a slider, the handle immediately jumps to that position.
- When you hang over a knob/slider with the mouse (even no focus required!), you can also use the mouse wheel to tweak the knob/slider.
And again Ctrl and Shift give you a rich control, cfr above.
- When the knob/slider has the focus (=colored box around it), you can also press the +, - and all arrow keys for tweaking.
- When tweaking with the keys, holding Ctrl and Shift works similar as above.
- Pressing the Home key sets the knob/slider to its default value. This can also be done via a Alt-click on the knob/slider.
As you see, a knob/slider can be tweaked in various ways, depending on your needs.
- The Desktop button brings you to the Desktop.
- The Favorite Folders button allows you to quickly go to one of your favorite folders, or manage them.
- The File Name Filter button allows you to set the name filter to e.g. "B*.MuSynth" which means that the browser will list all files starting with B and having a 'MuSynth' extension.
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