Overview
Compound audio objects are created by extracting few audio objects in the signal flow. There is an option to ship a tuning panel with the CAO, so when exported, both compound audio object and the panel associated with this can be shared with others, and it is easy to tune when the CAO is imported. This section describes the steps to associate custom panel to CAO.
Create CAO
Refer to section “Create a Compound Audio Object” to learn how to extract CAO from audio objects in a signal flow.
Create custom panel
Create custom panel for the compound audio object. Please refer to section “custom control panel – create new panel” for this.
Launch Custom panel for CAO
Once the custom panel is created, the panel has to be launched to ensure that it is working, and tuning is possible. Refer to the below image. This is normal associating a panel to any audio object. User has to check the box “is custom panel” and select the appropriate custom panel from the list box. On double clicking the CAO, the panel will launch.
Below is one example custom panel created for the CAO and the tuning is possible.
Note: There will be exclamation marks on the control if state variables are not associated with the control. All exclamation marks should be fixed before proceeding further. Please refer to “Custom Control Panels – Add StateVariables to the Panel” to link statevariables to controls.
Link panel to CAO
Once the panel is verified to be launching properly for the CAO with a double click, it has to be associated to the CAO type. On the property page, there is a new button with the name “Apply custom panel to toolbox type”. Press that button and accept the confirmation message. Now the custom panel is associated with the type in the toolbox. Below image shows the button to be pressed to link the custom panel to CAO.
Note: This option will be available only if the audio object selected is a CAO type.
Share CAO along with custom panel
Once the custom panel is associated with the CAO, check if this panel is associated by dragging the CAO into the signal flow and double clicking it. Panel should launch like any other audio object with default panels. Export the compound audio object to a .cao file in order to share it with others. Refer to “Import/Export a Compound Audio Object (CAO)” section to export CAO.
If the .cao file has the custom panel, on importing the CAO, it comes associated with the panel. If CAO is dragged into the signal flow designer and double clicked, panel launches and tuning is possible.
Edit custom panel for CAO
User can also edit CAO that has come with exported file .cao . Press the button “Add instance custom panel to Gallery for Edit” in the property window, to add the custom panel to the custom panel gallery, and edit custom panel window will open for further edit. See picture below which shows the button to edit custom panel that came with CAO.
Note: This button will be available only for CAO type.
