Sound Item Default Attributes Values

SoundMill keeps a list of Default Attributes for all five groups of Sound Item attributes (Play Controls, Descriptors, Play Modifiers, and Locator ). These defaults are used when creating New Sound Items (except for Name, Desciption, and audio Filename attributes which are left blank for new Sound Items ). There are also power editing operations under the Tools menu for setting an individual attribute on all Sound Items at once. These operations use the default attributes as the source to determine how a value should be set (example checked or unchecked, etc).

Default Attributes Modes

There are two modes. The Default Attributes Mode button on the Find toolbar toolbar indicates the current mode. Click on this button at any time to change the mode.

Figure 1. Find toolbar

• Favorite mode  - Favorite mode ( ) allows you to save and use a set of user favorite default attributes.
• Sound List mode  - Sound List mode ( ) allows you to save default attributes with each Sound List. So everytime you load a previously saved Sound List, the default attributes are reloaded from that Sound List .

Saving Default Attributes

First, pick the mode as described above. Select any Sound Item in the list. Now click the Save as Default Attributes button ( ) on the Find toolbar toolbar The attributes of the selected Sound Item will be saved as the current defaults. It is actually a good practice to create a separate dummy Sound Item for setting the defaults. It can be easily deleted when you are finished using the default attribute operations.

How do I find the current Default Attributes settings?

First, pick your desired mode as described above (because each mode may have different current values). Then just create a New Sound Item. It will be populated with the current defaults.

Figure 2. Sound Item Attributes