Segment CPH

Controls

Palora's controls are bars, points and areas on its displays, buttons, and the matrix grid. They follow the same few rules, and this page describes those rules and the handful of places that break them.

Drag and scroll

You can drag or scroll most values in Palora. This makes it easy and intuitive to dial in a value. The value moves from where it is; clicking never makes it jump.

While dragging or scrolling, hold down:

  • Shift to make finer edits.
  • ⌥/Alt to narrow a drag or scroll to one value where a spot sets two — Resonance without Cutoff, Decay without Sustain.
  • ⌘/Ctrl (only drag) in ARP to set velocity of a note, or the swing on the ruler above the grid.

Click

Clicking toggles buttons; clicking a number lets you type a value.
⌘/Ctrl+double-click puts a value back to what the preset set; a plain double-click puts it back to its default value.

A few controls use ⌥/Alt and ⌘/Ctrl for something else, such as undo or bypass. The Overview names them where they appear.

Type a value

Click the number on a bar, or a value shown in a section title, to type in the value. The unit can be left off, and k means thousands — 2.5k on a frequency is 2500 Hz.

  • Enter applies it.
  • Esc cancels.
  • Clicking anywhere else applies it, and that click does nothing else.

Snap points

While dragging, a few controls hold briefly at their most-used value: Volume at 0 dB, Pan at the centre, both oscillators' Fine at zero, and the A/B Mix halfway. Hold Shift to drag straight through. Scrolling and typing are not affected.

Where the rules differ

  • Master Tune and Transpose, in Settings, cannot be scrolled or typed into, so scrolling the Settings panel never retunes the synth by accident.
  • Warn At, Wildness and Lightning, also in Settings, have no double-click reset.
  • Mono is a button. Click it; it has no double-click reset.
  • Stepped controls — Octave, Semi, LFO Division and other controls with fixed steps jump to the nearest step under the pointer, and scroll one step at a time. They have no typing, and Octave has no Shift for fine control.
  • Oscillator Shape — click to jump to saw, triangle or sine. A plain drag follows the pointer; Shift-drag moves from where the value is.
  • Unison does nothing to a drag until Voices is two or more.
  • Matrix cells — click an empty cell to route it, click a routed cell to remove it. ⌘/Ctrl-click a routed cell on an LFO, Rnd or key-track row to switch it between one way and both ways. They have no double-click reset and no typing, and scrolling never creates a routing.
  • The arpeggiator has no Shift for fine control and no double-click reset.
  • The LFO displays only show the wave. Set the LFOs with the bars and buttons beneath them.
  • In MIDI Map mode, clicking a control selects it for learning instead of changing it.

Keyboard

  • Esc closes whatever is open: a typed value, the preset menu, the preset browser, a dialog or the info panel.
  • Enter applies a typed value or loads the selected preset.
  • ↑ ↓ move through the preset menu and the preset browser's list.

Palora passes every other key to your DAW, so Space still starts and stops playback. There is no undo shortcut.