Sonique Help System - Visual Mode

SONIQUE™ CONTEXTUAL HELP SYSTEM - VISUAL MODE

ADDITIONAL HELP TOPICS

The Sonique Navigation Console Visual Mode Screen

INDEX:
In Brief
1) Visualization Display Area
2) Information Display Area
3) Track Number
4) Time Output
5) Playlist Progress Bar
6) Track Progress Bar
7) Extended Song Information
8) File Info

In Brief

Visual Mode provides a larger way to view file information and visualizations than Mid-State Mode. Most of the controls and information are identical to Mid-State Mode, but provided in a larger space.

1 : : Visualization Display Area

The Visualization Screen (vis) is where audio sensitive graphics are displayed. The Visualizations (Vis's) are plug-ins that reside in the sonique/vis directory with the .svp (sonique visual plugin) extension. The visualizations that come with Sonique are VU Sweep 1.0, Spectrum 1.0 and 2.0, and Waveform 1.0. You can switch between the different vis's with either the Page Up / Page Down buttons (Big Gray Buttons). Additional visualization plug-ins may be obtained at www.sonique.com/plugs.html.

The Visualization displays the visualizations within the Navigation Console of Sonique. You can change the visualization that is displayed by clicking on the large grey arrow buttons. At the top of the Visualization Display are two icons. The smaller square is the Full Window Toggle. Clicking it will cause the visualization to take up all of the screen area in EVERY screen of the Navigation Console, this is called Full Window Vis Mode. Clicking the Full Window toggle again will turn off Full Window Vis Mode.

The larger square will enable Full Screen Vis Mode. This mode requires Microsoft DirectX to be installed. To display instructions for using Full Screen Vis Mode just select "No Visual", or press the comma or period keys until it displays the instruction screen. Also, the instructions will be displayed if there is not a song being played in Sonique.

2 : : Information Display Area

This area displays track, time and progress information. You can switch between time elapsed and time remaining by clicking anywhere on the track or time. You can skip to another song by clicking on the playlist progress indicator. You can skip to another part of the current track by clicking on the track progress indicator.

3 : : Track Number

Current song's position in the playlist. You can view the songs in the current playlist by either selecting the track button above the visual display area, or by going to the playlist editor.

4 : : Time Output

Displays either the time elapsed or time remaining in the current track in hours, minutes, seconds and hundredths. You can toggle between time elapsed and time remaining with a single click.

5 : : Playlist Progress Bar

This progress indicator gives a graphical representation of progress through the current playlist. You can skip to different parts of the playlist by clicking any point on the bar. The song referenced by a given part of the bar is displayed in the status display. When you skip between songs, you will always skip to the beginning of the song.

6 : : Track Progress Bar

The Track Progress bar shows the progress through the current song. You can skip to any point in the song by clicking on the Track Progress bar.

7 : : Extended Song Information

This small screen displays detailed information about the current track such as file type, sample rate, bit rate, number of channels, etc.

8 : : File Info

Clicking on the File Info icon will open up your default browser to display the ID3 tag information (or other file information for mods or other files) for a file in an html file.

ADDITIONAL HELP TOPICS

Need more help? Read the sonique FAQ at: www.sonique.com/faq.html. Most of your questions will be answered there.
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