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Shift Menus

HDSQ edited this page Aug 28, 2020 · 2 revisions

Certain buttons can trigger menus when pressed.

  • Loop Button: Main shift menu
  • Record Button: Recording options
  • Stop Button (requires long press): Debug options

Main Shift Menu

When the shift button is pressed, some drum pads light up. Pressing these buttons perform common actions in FL Studio, including switching between windows. See Figure 1.

Drum Pads

  • Top left [light blue]: Undo/redo (equivalent to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Z on a computer keyboard)

  • Top right [Purple]: Previous/next window (equivalent to pressing Shift+Tab / Tab on a computer keyboard)

  • Top centre [Green]: Save project

  • Bottom right [Dark blue]: Open plugin picker

  1. Green: Switch to Playlist

  2. Red: Switch to Channel rack

  3. Pink: Switch to Piano roll

  4. Light blue: Switch to Mixer

  5. Orange: Switch to Browser

Fader Buttons

The fader buttons can be used to set the snapping mode.

  1. Beat

  2. 1/2 beat

  3. 1/3 beat

  4. 1/4 beat

  5. 1/6 beat

  6. Step

  7. Cell

  8. Line

  9. Enable/Disable (if snapping is enabled, the LED on this button will be lit)

Other Controls

The pitch-bend wheel acts as a jog-wheel. Moving the pitch-bend wheel down navigates down/right. Moving it up navigates up/left.

Recording Options

This menu gives access to various recording options. The layout imitates that of FL Studio's recording options on the toolbar (in the default layout).

Top Row

  1. Metronome.

  2. Wait for input before starting recording.

  3. Countdown before recording.

  4. Overdub (blend) recording.

  5. Loop recording.

Bottom Row

  1. Step recording.

Where possible, the light will pulse if the mode is active. If more options are added to the API for these, I will update the script accordingly.

Debug Menu

This menu is only activated if the stop button is long pressed.

  1. Manually initiate a crash.

  2. Enter debug mode.

  3. Begin the idle light show.

Figures

Figure 1: Shift Controls

Diagram of Shift Controls