2.2. Turntable Controls

The turntable GUI contains multiple controls and the realtime displays for each turntable. To save some space on your desktop and to give terminatorX the traditional audio-application look, terminatorX features "knob"-widgets. These widgets work pretty straight-forward: click somewhere within the widget and keep the left mouse-button pressed. Now move the mouse up and down or left and right to increase/decrease the control's value. All those widget are coupled with a text entry field since 3.70, which allows you to enter values directly.

A turntable is visualized by two panels: the controls and the audio-display. These are no longer combined for better layout management.

2.2.1. Turntable Audio-Display

The complete audio-file loaded into a turntable is displayed in the green-on-black audio-widget. When playing terminatorX will indicate the current position within the sample with a red cursor (a blue/green cursor indicates the turntable is muted).

Additionaly there are some controls above the audio-display:

2.2.2. Turntable Controls

These controls are now grouped within functional panels. The number of panel depends on the number of plugins loaded. terminatorX allows hiding the controls not required via the yellow arrow button. To un-hide just click the button again. The first panels are the standard controls for a turntable, then follows the dynamic FX-section and below that follow the pitch and volume controls.

2.2.2.1. Main Panel

  • Name Field

    The main panel features a text entry field that allows setting a name for the related turntable. The Labels for the controls and the audio-display will update accordingly.

  • Delete Button

    Pressing this button remove the tunrtable from the current setup. Note that all sequencer events recorded for this turntable will be erased, too.

2.2.2.2. Trigger Panel

The trigger panel holds all controls related to triggering the turntable. For more details on synchronization see Section 2.3 (synchronization).

  • Trigger! Button

    Pressing this button triggers the turntable now. With the audio engine enabled this will cause the turntable to start playing back audio from the beginning of the sample.

  • Stop Button

    Guess what, this stops this turntable's audio-playback.

  • Master Button

    Enabling this button makes this turntable the sync-master. Note that only one turntable at a time can be the sync-master.

  • Client Button

    This button marks the turntable as sync-client, so it will be triggerd with the master automatically.

  • Sync-Cycles Selection

    The sync cycles determine how often a sync-client should be triggered. With a setting of zero the sync-client will be (re-)triggered with every trigger of the sync-master. A setting of 1 will (re-)trigger the client every second master-triger and so on.

2.2.3. The Effect Queue

With release 3.70 the effects are no longer hardcoded into the turntable. The effects are now arranged within an per-turntable effect-queue. The effect sequence is configurable by the user. To move an effect to higher position within the queue, press the blue upward arrow button. This will cause the effect to be renderd before the following effects. The blue downward arrow button will move the effect down by one position. It will then be rendered after the preceding effects.

There are two types of effects: the traditional built-in effects (Lowpass and Echo) and LADSPA plugins. The built-in effects are always available and cannot be removed (but disabled). There can be only one instance of a built-in effect. The LADSPA plugins on the other hand may be intanciated multiple times and can be removed from the effect queue. Press the blue cross button to achieve this.

For more information on a LADSPA plugin, press it's panel's label and a small info box will pop up.

2.2.4. Lowpass Panel

terminatorX features a buitlin resonating lowpass filter that can be configured with this panel.

2.2.5. Echo Panel

Additionaly terminatorX features a built-in echo effect. It can be configured with this panel.