FXpansion DR-008 - Manual (Page 8)

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3.1 Main Controls
This section deals with the various controls on the ‘frame surround’ the grey
outer area around the outside of the Workspace Area.
3.1.1 View Modes
These controls let you select which view mode the Workspace is currently in.
‘Overview’ allows you to see all the pads on screen at once; ‘Details’ provides
more information about each pad, at the expense of not being able to see them
all at once; ‘Mix’ provides larger and easy-to-use controls for adjusting volume,
pan and suchlike; ‘Edit’ allows you to edit the settings of the currently-loaded
modules, as well as the main workspace settings.
3.1.2 Program Name
Shows the name of the
currently-loaded patch. Use the host application to edit the name of the patch.
3.1.3 Menus
3.1.3.1 Loading a kit
The ‘Load’ menu button is where you load in a pre-made DR-008 kit and all
its associated settings. You can either load it normally, or ‘Merge’ the new
kit in to the current kit. When merging, sounds from the new kit are only
loaded in to slots where there is no sound loaded in the currently-open kit.
Future versions of DR-008 will support a wider variety of merge options.
3.1.3.2 Saving a kit
This menu allows you to save all the current settings (including automation
and Multimute configuration, and settings for all currently-loaded Modules)
in a DR-008 Bank File (*.db8). There are three options when saving:-
• • ‘Save settings only’ saves all the above settings, and stores a
reference to each of the wave files used in the project. If you move
the wave files afterwards and reload the kit, the DR-008 will try to