Global Bars

Status bar

The status bar helps you easily monitor many critical information about your hardware and your incoming or outgoing audio stream.

Input stream

Allows monitoring of the good reception of audio through LAP.

When “No connection” is displayed, this means that no SPAT Send plug-in with LAP enabled is seen by SPAT Revolution.
When a connection is validated, it should provide a timecode, corresponding to the DAW transport position.
If the sample rate or block size is unmatched between SPAT Revolution and the DAW used, the “all in sync” mention will turn red and count the sync errors.

Hardware device

This section helps you monitor your audio hardware and how it interacts with SPAT Revolution.

You can see the name of your input & output device.
The block size and sample rate of SPAT Revolution.
The whole latency of the system. This depends on the block size and on the selected audio interfaces. Using different audio interfaces can result in higher latency.

Timecode source

Here, you can choose which timecode SPAT Revolution should look at.

By default, it is set to “Absolute”. It refers to the clock of your computer, no matter the connection with an audio interface or with LAP streams.
“LAP Send” looks at the clock provided by SPAT Sends plug-ins.
“LAP Return” looks at the clock provided by SPAT Returns plug-ins.
“Audio hardware” looks at the clock provided by the selected audio interfaces.
“MTC” (MIDI Time Code) synchronizes the SPAT Revolution transport to an external MTC source received on the MIDI input port configured in the MIDI I/O preferences MIDI I/O. This allows you to lock SPAT Revolution’s transport to a DAW, show controller, or any other device that sends MTC.
“Ableton Link” enables Ableton Link synchronization. When active, SPAT Revolution shares a common BPM with all other Link-enabled applications on the same network. This is primarily used for animation tempo sync — any animation with Tempo Sync enabled will follow the shared Link tempo. See the Ableton Link section of the Animation page for details.

Timecode

Let you monitor the timecode seen by SPAT Revolution. For proper operation of snapshots and automations, it should be always running.

Support

Allows to send feedback to the FLUX:: Immersive support team.

Note

With Send/Return plug-ins, if the sampling rate and block size between DAW and SPAT Revolution are different, the status bar will be red. Double-click on this bar to automatically change them into SPAT Revolution.

Snapshot bar

This toolbar has been designed to help to handle snapshots without navigating to the snapshots page. Some of the most important snapshot actions will be found on it:

Recall the Previous snapshot.
The name of the Current snapshot. Clicking on it will display the snapshot list, enabling to recall any snapshot of the list.
Recall the Next snapshot.
Update the current snapshot.
Enable or disable the Relative Recall.
Propagate values between snapshots.

This bar can be hidden on the snapshot panel of the Preference page.

Note

More information about snapshots can be found on the [snapshots page -@snapshot].

Cue bar

The Cue bar is a compact show-control strip displayed in the transport area. It gives access to the current cue and next cue without opening the full Cues panel.

The bar contains:

Current cue: shows the last triggered cue. Clicking it opens a cue list menu, where the currently active cue is checked and disabled cues are unavailable.
Next cue: triggers the next enabled cue and advances the cue selection.
Cue page: opens the Cues page in single-view.

The next cue is resolved from the last triggered cue first. If no cue has been triggered yet, SPAT Revolution uses the selected enabled cue, then the first enabled cue in the list. If there is no enabled cue to trigger, the Next cue button displays - and is disabled.

The Cue bar can be shown from the View menu. It shares the same control-bar area as the Snapshot bar, so enabling one hides the other.

More information about cue authoring and cue execution can be found on the Cue System.

Transport bar

The transport bar allows to access to the recording feature of SPAT Revolution. It is possible to write the audio stream going through any blocs (except for the sources) to audio files.

It is possible to launch the recording by clicking on the “Record” button in the transport bar, located at the bottom of the user interface, or using the shortcut “Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R”. The session must have been saved to enable the recording. Otherwise, a popup will appear asking to save the session. Closing the session, deleting a block, or dearming a block will automatically stopped the recording.

Media stream bar

This bar provides information about the recording blocks, the file names and path, the elapsed time of recording, the number of channels recorded, and more. It will be automatically displayed when arming a block. Also, it can be shown/hidden via the menu “View/Show media stream”, or via the shortcut “Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O”.