XO Wave: View Menu

When a Mix window is frontmost, XO Wave's View menu shows only one option: Display Multiple Tracks.

When an Edit or Mix window is frontmost, the View menu offers a variety of commands for manipulating the track display.

When a different window is frontmost (or when no windows are open), the View menu is not available.

• Display Multiple Tracks
• Zoom in Less
• Zoom out Less
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• Zoom in More
• Zoom out More
• Zoom to Selection
• Zoom to Entire Session

• Zoom in Vertical
• Zoom out Vertical
• Zoom Normal

• Increase Track Height
• Decrease Track Height
• Normal Track Height

• Prev View Less
• Next View Less
• Prev View
• Next View
• Prev View More
• Next View More

• Start of Selection
• End of Selection

• Show/Hide Channel Strip View
• Show/Hide Region Bin
• Show/Hide Help and Editing Effect Area

Display Multiple Tracks

With this option off, the Edit window hides the editing controls for all but the selected track; in addition, it shrinks the other tracks vertically. To select another track for editing, click the blue triangle by its label at the left of the track -- this will automatically minimize the previously selected track.

Zoom in Less | Zoom out Less

Like Zoom in & Zoom out, these commands change the duration in the Track Editing Area, but in smaller increments. Zoom in Less shows 80% as much time, or 1.25x magnification; Zoom out Less shows 25% more time, or .8x magnification.

Zoom in | Zoom out

Zoom in shows twice as much horizontal detail in the Track Editing Area, fitting half as many samples in the same number of horizontal pixels. Zoom out shows half as much detail. In the Session Overview, immediately above in the Edit window, the light-colored area is the visible section. Note that XO Wave automatically switches between different waveform displays depending on zoom level.

Zoom in More | Zoom out More

Like Zoom in & Zoom out, these commands change the duration in the Track Editing Area. Zoom in more shows 20% as much (zooming in by a 5x), and Zoom out More shows 5x as much, zooming out by 20%.

Zoom to Selection

Unsurprisingly, this adjusts the viewable Track Editing Area to exactly match the current selection.

Zoom to Entire Session

This sets the beginning of the view area to the beginning of the first track, and the end of the view to the end of the (last) track, so you can see everything.

Zoom in Vertical | Zoom out Vertical | Zoom Normal

These options increase, decrease, and reset-to-defaults, respectively, the visible height of all waveforms in the Track Editing Area. They do not change the height of the rectangular track areas, so Zoom in Vertical can make waveforms go beyond the visible area; Zoom out Vertical can bring them back into view.

These controls affect all tracks. If you want different tracks to use different zoom levels, right-click or Control-click in a track and use the Display Magnification contextual menu. In addition, Memory Locations can store and restore zoom levels.

Increase Track Height | Decrease Track Height | Normal Track Height

The Edit window displays each track in the Track Editing Area. Increase Track Height increases the height of all tracks; Decrease Track Height decreases the height of each track, and Normal Track Height resets all track heights to the default.

These controls affect all tracks. If you want different tracks to use different zoom levels, right-click or Control-click in a track and use the Display Height contextual menu. In addition, Memory Locations can store and restore track heights.

Prev View Less | Next View Less

Prev View Less jumps backwards on the timeline by 25% the current view duration, so if you are currently viewing 00:00:45.00-00:01:45.00, Prev View will change the visible area to 00:00:30.00-00:01:30.00. Next View similarly jumps forward by 25% the current duration.

Prev View | Next View

Prev View jumps backwards on the timeline by 50% the current viewable duration, so if you are currently viewing 00:01:00.00-00:02:00.00, Prev View will change the visible area to 00:00:30.00-00:01:30.00. Next View similarly jumps forward by half the current duration.

Prev View More | Next View More

Prev View jumps backwards on the timeline by the current viewable duration, so if you are currently viewing 00:01:00.00-00:02:00.00, Prev View will change the visible area to 00:00:00.00-00:01:00.00. Next View similarly jumps forward by the current duration.

Start of Selection | End of Selection

If the beginning of the selection is not currently visible, Start of Selection centers the view on it. End of Selection is equivalent of the selection's endpoint.

Show/Hide Channel Strip View | Show/Hide Region Bin | Show/Hide Help and Editing Effect Area

Use these controls to remove and restore the Edit window's Channel Strip, Region Bin, or Effect Editing Area.