Preferences

The Preferences window contains some general settings:

User Interface:

• Color Theme: Choose a color theme. The Classic themes (Windows only) make the program look like pre-version 5 MultitrackStudio.
• Knob Style: The round knobs can respond to either rotary or vertical mouse movements.
• Show full path: Show the full file path of the songs in the song menu (instead of just the name).
• Show tooltips: Turn on/off the tooltips that appear on moving the mouse over a control. Note that many tooltips provide helpful information which you won't be able to see if your turn them off.
• Input Device(Windows only): Choose Touchscreen if you're using a touchscreen, choose Mouse, Keyboard otherwise.
• Size(Mac only): If you have problems reading or operating the user interface you can make it larger. The setting has no effect until you've restarted MultitrackStudio.
• Layout: Here you can show or hide some parts of the main window.

• Scrubber on track editors: The track editor scrubbing feature can be turned on/off.
• Play notes being edited: MIDI notes that are being edited can be made audible.
• Show all buttons (no "More"): Hide the More button that appears on some editors and show buttons for all the options.

• Default Instrument: Determines the MIDI instrument that appears in a new track. Options are "MultitrackStudio Instruments" and "External MIDI Instrument 1".
• MIDI file format: Determines the timing precision used for saving MIDI files. '480 ticks per quarter note' (default) is the most compatible option, but '30 frames per sec./200 ticks per frame' offers the highest resolution. The latter is not as widely supported, music notation software typically won't open this type of files.
• "Wave" tab: Adds a "Wave" tab to the Piano/Score/Drum tabs. The Wave editor shows the MIDI data as if it were an audio signal.
• Default Editor: Here you can choose the type of MIDI editor that appears by default.
• Default Editor Mode: Determines which of the three buttons in the bottom left corner of the MIDI editors is 'on' by default. It defaults to Select Part, which works similar to audio editors and is suitable if you do a lot of MIDI recording. You might want to switch to Select Notes or Add Notes if you enter notes using the mouse a lot.
• Switch to bars automatically: switch the time grid to bars if there's at least one MIDI track in the song.
• Middle C: Determines the name of MIDI note 60. Can be C3, C4 or C5 (C5 is the default value).
• Sampler Memory: Determines the maximum amount of memory to be used for Sampler instruments. The operating system will be forced to use the hard disk if too much memory is being used. This 'disk swapping' will decrease performance significantly, and should therefore be avoided. This setting is intended for lowering the Sampler's memory usage to make room for other audio programs (eg. sampler type VSTi plugins). This setting has no effect if there are no Samplers.

• Root Folder for New Songs: A new folder will be created in this folder for each new song. It defaults to "My Documents\MultitrackStudio Songs" (Windows) / "/Users/username/Music/MultitrackStudio Songs" (Mac).
• VST plugins:
  Windows: Specifies the VST Folder. All VST Plugins you want to use should be located in this folder or one of its subfolders. See also Customizing the VST folder.
  Note: the 64-bit version will ask for permission to run "MtStudio.exe" as Administrator. That's to update the registry, so VST plugin installers can find the VST folder.
  Mac: VST plugins are typically located in the user or system Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST folder, so there's no need to specify a folder here. You can specify an additional folder if you have one.
• Sampler patches: Specifies the folder that contains sampler patches (see organizing your patches)
• Convolutor impulse responses: Specifies the folder that contains impulse responses. This box is empty by default. You can create a folder for your IR files and select it here.