Settings: GUI and About

As you’ve probably guessed, this is where you can tell SpectrumWorx how you’d like its interface to behave, and affect aspects of its appearance.

Mouse over reaction

This determines how SpectrumWorx displays the various parameter settings in the main plug-in window when using your mouse in the rack. You have three options here:

• Never only displays the information for the currently selected parameter.
• Module selected will cause the information for all knobs of a selected module to appear when you mouse over them.
• Always / nothing selected will display information for any knob and/or module any time the cursor passes over it.

LFO update behavior

This setting determines how and under what circumstances SpectrumWorx updates its various parameter displays if those specific parameters are being modulated by an LFO. Basically, it can look as if any LFO-affected knobs are being tweaked all by themselves.

We probably needn’t tell you what setting this function to Never will do. However, setting it to Always will result in all LFO-driven knobs being updated all of the time. It can look pretty cool, too, though it will use slightly more of your CPU. Control selected will display the LFO action only for a selected knob, while Control active will display the action of any control you might have moused over, given the appropriate settings of the Mouse over reaction function.

Load last session on startup

A simple on/off switch that does just what it says on the label. Erm, that is, your last session will be loaded up when you instantiate the plug-in. Keep in mind that a session includes all settings, including Engine settings. If, for instance, you change the frame length, that change will only be remembered if you have this option selected.

As already mentioned in the Input mode section, this need not work as expected in all hosts, as certain hosts can and will override your last session settings with the settings they have saved in their project files (which incidentally might often be the same settings as the ones saved in your last session preset).

Hide cursor on knob drag

Switch this on if you want the cursor to disappear while you turn a knob. Otherwise, leave it off.

Set window and menu opacity

This slider will determine the opacity of your Settings and Presets windows as well as pop-up menus. All the way left makes them fairly transparent, while all the way right makes them entirely opaque.

Settings: About

Find out what version you are running and who is behind the superlative SpectrumWorx by clicking the About tab.