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General Preferences

General preferences tab

The General tab in the preferences contains the following settings:

Folder for temporary files

This is the folder where Acoustica stores temporary files. It is critical for the performance that this is on a quick hard drive or SSD and that you have sufficient free space on the volume. You can choose either to type in a folder path or use the browse button on the right side to open the OS specific folder browser.

Time format:

You can choose the time format that Acoustica uses when displaying time positions. SMPTE time code options are available if you are working with video or film as well as bar and beat oriented time formats for music production. Otherwise, we recommend the standard Hour:Min:Sec:MS format.

Offset Time by sample offset value

Offsets the time by the sample offset value when Yes is selected.

Close tool window after process

Choose Yes if you would like processing tool windows to be closed automatically when you click the Process button.

Enable drag and drop editing

Enables or disables drag and drop editing.

Allow channel selection in waveform

Allows the channel to be selected directly within the waveform.

Playback scroll mode

You can choose how Acoustica should scroll during playback. The following options are available:

  • No scrolling: Acoustica won't scroll to keep the play cursor in the view

  • Page jump scrolling: Acoustica jumps a page at a time to keep the play cursor in the view

  • Keep cursor in middle of view: Acoustica scrolls smoothly with the cursor in the middle of the view

  • Keep cursor at end of view: Acoustica scrolls smoothly with the cursor in the end of the view

Timeline horizontal scroll direction

Determines the direction of horizontal scrolling in the timeline.

Always play from cursor position

Acoustica will normally revert the play cursor to the last start position when you stop playback. Choose Yes if you prefer that the play cursor remains at the stop position.

Zoom mode

You can choose whether you want to zoom around the mouse cursor (Center around mouse cursor) or the play cursor (Center around playhead) when you use the mouse scroll wheel.

Scan for new plug-ins when starting

Acoustica scans for new and updated plug-ins at start-up per default. Choose No to skip the scan, which can shorten the start-up time considerably if you have a large plug-in collection. Newly installed plug-ins will then not appear until you scan for them in the Plug-in Manager.

Maximum plug-in validation time (s)

Acoustica will automatically cancel plug-in validation if a plug-in freezes for a long period of time. You can set the time out in seconds.

Language

You can choose the language of the user interface in Acoustica. The list is built from the language files installed with Acoustica and currently contains English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.

Check for updates when starting

Acoustica checks for new versions at start-up per default. You can disable the check by choosing No.

Show tooltips

Selects whether Acoustica will display tooltips during use.

Playhead blinking

Sets whether the playhead blinks or not.