Vangelis Pills - Navigation
Zynthian has multiple methods to navigate its UI which allow for the three core user interface designs: V4, V5 & Touch-only. In general, short, bold and long press (or tap / click) will trigger an operation, like navigating to a view. The long press is usually associated with a global action that should occur everywhere whilst short and bold press are generally context specific. The global naviagition for each of the 4 encoders are:
1. Show admin menu 2. PANIC! All sounds off 3. Show snaphots menu 4. Show power off option
1 V4
Core navigation is performed using the 4 encoders, labelled:
1. layer 2. back 3. learn / shot 4. select
Navigation is performed by short, bold or long pressing an encoder and using the select encoder to move the highlight cursor through lists. Where there is a 2D interface, e.g. grid, the learn / shot encoder is used for vertical navigation and the select encoder is used for horizontal navigation. The touchscreen may be used to assist with navigation if desired.
2 V5
There are 20 LED illuminated buttons which provide the core navigation on a V5. Each button has a legend that indicates its default behaviour and optionally an alternative operation which may be triggered by bold press and/or enabling ALT (by pressing ALT button), e.g. OPT | ADMIN is the option menu button that will show the admin menu as its alternative function.
The touchscreen may be used to assist with navigation if desired.
The navigation buttons with 2 labels can access the 2 views with short or bold press and also toggle between the 2 views with short press.
- OPT | ADMIN - Show the chain manager view or the admin menu
- MIX | LEVEL - Show the mixer or the soundcard hardware controls
- CTRL | PRESET - Show the control view or preset for the selected processor
- ZS3 | SHOT - Show the ZS3 (subsnapshot) list or the snapshot list
- Metronome - Show the tempo and transport control view or act as a tap tempo button
- PAD | STEP - Show the sequence launcher view or the MIDI pattern editor
- BACK | NO - Navigate to previous screen or cancel current operation
- SEL| YES - Navigate to selected view or select current options
- UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT - Move cursor through 1D or 2D menus and grids
- ALT - Toggle alternative mode, enabling alternative functions on each button
2.2 Transport buttons
By default, transport buttons operate on the global audio recorder, or the local device if a device control view is displayed. With ALT enabled, this changes to MIDI control.
- RECORD - Toggle record. Bold press to view last recording
- STOP | PANIC - Stop playback. Bold press to stop all sound.
- PLAY | PAUSE - Toggle play/pause. Bold press to view last recording.
2.3 Function buttons
- F1, F2, F3, F4 are user configurable function buttons.
3 Touch-only
Touch (or pointer) interface allows full control with just a touchscreen or pointer, e.g. mouse. To reduce the space on screen wasted by dedicated navigation buttons, the touch interface uses a few less-intutive touch areas for some of its operations.
- Topbar - The left part of the black strip across the top of most views is the topbar, usually showing title info. Tap to show the chain manager view or a context menu. Bold press to toggle mixer / launcher view.
- Status area - The right part of the black strip across the top of most views is the status area, usually showing status info. Tap to show the tempo and transport control view or sometimes a context menu. Bold press to show the ZS3 list.
- Topbar back button - When appropriate, a "<" button appears on the left of the topbar. This acts as a back or cancel button. (It has short, bold and long triggers too!)
- Mixer legend strip - The bottom of each mixer / launcher strip shows the name of the chain. Tap to show the control view. Bold press to show chain manager view. Drag to horizontally scroll the mixer / launcher view.
- Lists - Many menus are longer than the viewable area. Drag or swipe to scroll a list.
- Chain manager (and similar 2D views) - drag to move the view area horizontally or vertically. Bold press and drag (don't release) an object to drag it.
Most other touch functions should seem intutive, i.e. touch something to access it.
Global functions are accessed with long press:
- Show admin menu - Topbar
- PANIC! All sounds off - Status area