Sculpture envelope display in MainStage

The envelope curve is shown in the display to the lower right of the Sculpture interface. The envelope display is active only if the envelope is engaged (Mode buttons are set to either Env or Ctrl+Env).

• The overall time/length of the envelope is indicated by the numerical entry at the top right of the window (2400 ms in the figure).

• The maximum time/length of the envelope is 48 bars/40 seconds.

• The lines on the background grid are placed 100 milliseconds apart.

• The background lines are placed 1000 ms apart when very long envelope times are displayed. In sync mode, this is displayed as 1 quarter.

• The envelope is zoomed automatically after you release the mouse button. This displays the entire envelope at the highest possible resolution. You can disable or enable this feature by clicking the Autozoom button—the small magnifying glass.

• Autozoom is automatically disabled when you perform a manual zoom—by clicking the envelope display background, and dragging horizontally. As a reference, the current display width is displayed in the numerical entry at the top right of the display. You can re-engage automatic zooming by clicking the Autozoom button.

• If you click the handles (nodes) or lines between the nodes in the envelope display, the current envelope segment becomes highlighted. A small help tag also indicates the millisecond value of the current segment.