Adding a Text Display
The Text Display Definition dialog box contains the following entries:
- Display name - this is just a descriptive name for your display. It can help later if you use the same name(s) as those used in the device manufacturer's documentation.
- Number of display lines - this is self-explanatory and defines the number of lines that the display extends over.
- Display length - it is important to realise that this is not the same as the length of a single line of the display, but represents the total length of the display. For example, the Frontier Designs Tranzport surface has an LCD display that has two lines of 20 characters each, making the display length equal to 40.
- Strip columns - this entry allows you to define the number of channel strips that your surface represents. Again, the Tranzport only displays a single track or bus at a time, so you'd enter 1 here. In comparison, the Mackie Control Universal is organised more like an eight-channel mixer, with eight channel strips, so the correct entry would be 8.
- MIDI message definition... button. This button allows you to specify the MIDI message that sends text to this display.
Once you've entered values into all of the fields and defined a MIDI message, Tab to the OK button and press Enter to return to the Text Displays page - your newly-defined display should now appear in the list box.