General settings
Settings options allow modifying the general MotionKit settings.
To display the settings, click on the settings icon in the homepage as described
in the homepage section or in any instrument page.
Global tab
main language
Sets the language Motionkit is displayed in. Motionkit can display either English or French.
color Style
Color style of Motionkit.
global zoom scale
Allows the adjustment of zoom for the entire Motionkit interface.
Useful to adjust the interface size on tablets.
hardware acceleration
Turns on the hardware graphic acceleration . Sometime the graphic card can de in conflict with sound card drivers.
Windows only.
buffered drawing
Usine will use a 2 steps buffering for drawing. This improves the graphic performances, but decrease the render quality especially when controls are zoomed.
fast text canvas
Try to draw text faster, but takes more memory.
low graphic quality
Option to toggle in low graphic quality to increase the global performance. Low graphic quality can reduce significantly CPU load, but also reduce graphic precision.
refresh speed
Sets the global Motionkit refresh speed. For low value (5 ms) Motionkit is very reactive and the graphic display looks smooth but cost a lot of CPU.
25 ms is a good value in most situations.
max number of threads
Determines the maximum number of threads allowed in Motionkit.
Each rack is processed in a separate thread. Good values are from 16 to 32.
disk Buffer size
Disk Buffer Size of the reading audio file buffer.
A good value is around 1000ms. Increase if you use large multi-channels files.
CPU load max
Sets the CPU protection level. If the CPU Load is greater than the CPU maximum level, the audio engine stops for few seconds, to avoid hard crash of your system.
Generally 90% is a good value for a single core processor. If you don't want use this protection set the value to 100%.
Audio tab
Audio and sound cards settings.
drivers
Choose your Sound card in the available drivers list.
in/out
Choose the device for the selected driver.
nb in
Number of inputs of the selected Sound card.
nb out
Number of outputs of the selected Sound card.
sample rate
Choose the working sample rate.
Remember that 44100Hz is generally enough and CPU friendly.
buffer size
Buffer size in sample (latency).
Don’t forget that in the real world (not in the marketing one!) all drivers have 1 input and 2 output buffers. It means that to get the real latency, you always have to multiply by at least 3!
usine block size
In Motionkit (like in almost all audio softwares) the audio flow is sliced and processed by blocs. This parameter indicates the current bloc size.
input left/right
Activates Audio inputs to makes them available in Motionkit.
output left/right
Activates Audio outputs to makes them available in Motionkit.
soft Clipping
Soft Clipping limiter: prevent audio saturation of the sound card.
pre-listen volume
Gain applied when you pre-listen a sample in the samples list manager.
MIDI tab
MIDI global settings.
rescan devices
Rescan and updates the list of available MIDI devices connected to the system.
Can be used for Hot plugging MIDI devices.
reset devices
Resets all MIDI devices connected to the system (shutdown an reopen).
If a device fails to respond, this option is useful to reset the device in hopes of regaining functionality.
inputs / outputs
Shows available and connected MIDI devices. It allows you to activate devices you want to use.
For example in the picture below, the LPD8 controller is enabled and ready to use as MIDI Input.
MIDI feedback to all devices
When ON, the MIDI feedback is sent to all motorized devices, even if they are not the concerned by the MIDI learn.
send ALL NOTES OFF on stop sync
When activated, Motionkit sends the a MIDI All Note Off message when sync has stopped.
ignore active sensing messages
Some MIDI controllers send continuously active sensing messages. When ON, Motionkit filters them directly.
This way the trace panel and your MIDI devices are not polluted by this message.
Video tab
Video options of Motionkit.
video active
Activates/deactivates the video engine.
video in devices
Activates/deactivates the video inputs devices (several inputs possible). Also choose the resolution and framerate in the list of possible settings.
output format
Choose the target format of the video ie. the final display form factor like 16/9, 3/4, etc. All video player modules will automatically adapt the videos to the proportions of the final target.
If not defined is chosen, the scaling will be done at the end of the process, generally in the output video device.
video frame rate
Video engine speed in fps (frames per second). Hi values can overload CPU but improve the fluidity.
mix strategy
Determines the mix-down strategy when 2 video flow are in the same wire and have to be mixed together.
- largest win : the smallest video is enlarged to fit to the largest video size; use more CPU.
- smallest win : the largest video is reduced to fit to the smallest video size; use less CPU.
About Video Compression
Most of video files are compressed to keep their size on disk as small as possible. The main drawback is that it's generally impossible to play frames in a random order, especially backward (You can only play a video forward).
If you want to have a precise access to frames, convert video files into motion-JPEG with the convert video to motionJPEG tool.
convert video to images
Converts a Video file into separated images.
convert video to motion-JPEG
Convert a Video file into a motion-JPEG file. It increases the size on disk but can solve many frame to frame access issues.
video conversion compression
Compression rate used for the motion-JPEG compression. Low values for best quality, hi values for low quality.
This option is only visible in God Mode
extract audio from video
Extracts the audio flow of a video into a wav file to be able to load it into a MotionKit.
Touch tab
Touch screen configuration
Windows only.
enable touch screen
Enable/Disable the touch screen feature.
activate double click
Enable/Disable the double click feature.
trace Gestures names
Traces gesture's names (the finger movement recognition).
use virtual keyboard
Displays the virtual keyboard when text entry is needed. Useful on tablets.
Protect tab
The Protect mode is a powerful way to protect your workspaces,
protect Password
The password you want to use to activate/deactivate the protect mode.
By default the password is : protect.
hide main on-off
Hide Main ON-OFF switch of the master-panel.
hide master
Hide all the master-panel.
hide global synchro
Hide the master-synchro-panel.
hide contextual menu
Hide the contextual-menu-panel.
hide rec automation
Hide the Rec Automation icon of the main-menu-panel.
hide MIDI learn
Hide the MIDI the learn icon of the main-menu-panel.
hide zoom
Hide the zoom icon of the main-menu-panel.
hide save workspace
Hide the save workspace command.
hide setup
Hide the show setup command.
hide fullscreen
Hide the full screen button
About tab
Displays various informations about the current version of Motionkit.
version
Current software version number.
acknowledgements
Motionkit's implementation use several externals software tools and libraries. Our thanks to their developers.