The Harmonizer
Programmer’s Manual
The Harmonizer
Programmer’s Manual Page 91 of 97 Release 1.2.1
1999 Eventide, Inc.
Menupages and Parameter Placement
The use of menupage modules to create menu pages in the PARAMETER area is crucial for creating easy
to use programs. This section discusses many of the fine points of menu creation and the care and feeding
of userobjects. There are several important points regarding
PARAMETER area menu pages and their
construction in the Patch Editor area:
• Null userobjects are invisible. They do not take space on a
menu page in the
PARAMETER area. Having the head
module or a menupage module include a nullobj
(sometimes titled adc-nullobj (as shown to the right) or head-
nullobj
) creates null userobjects.
• Any userobject that is connected to the head module creates
a
SOFT KEY (with the exceptions of those userobjects that are
null).
• The order that a userobject is listed in the head module
determines what location the
SOFT KEY will appear in the
PARAMETER menu. The first userobject gets the first SOFT
KEY
. The fifth userobject gets the fifth SOFT KEY and so on.
• The order that a userobject is listed in a menupage module
determines where on a PARAMETER area menu page it will
appear.
• Objects are placed on a menu in upper left to lower right
order, as listed in the menupage module.
• If a module’s
PARAMETER area graphic is too large to
appear on a menu page with other modules’ graphics, it is
placed on a later menu page in a menu stack, thus creating a
SOFT KEY stack.
• menupage modules may be connected to other menupage modules! A menupage userobject output
is the same as any other module’s userobject output, except that a menupage userobject output is always
big enough to warrant being placed on its own menu page or pages in the
PARAMETER area.
•
A userobject output may be connected to multiple userobject inputs. This means a single module’s userobject
output can show up in several menu pages in the
PARAMETER area. Note: If an module’s PARAMETER area graphic
is shown more than once on a single
menu page, the second instance might not be updated when the first instance’s value changes and vice versa.
• When a module with a userobject output from the “delay." “detector." “dynamic." “external." “filter."
“mixer." “oscillator." “pitchshift." or “reverb” module groups is inserted using the
<insert> SOFT KEY,
its ‘userobject” output is automatically connected to the head module.
