Spacebar: The spacebar triggers Pause All, immediately pausing all audio playback. When using a set in List mode, with the Playback Mode set to Queued, the return key triggers Play Queued Tile. Select multiple tiles (using the Command and Shift keys), then use this shortcut to fire them simultaneously. Return: The return key triggers Play Selection, causing any selected sounds to be played. The following are some of the most useful shortcuts related specifically to playback. Easy! Useful Playback Shortcutsįarrago includes keyboard shortcuts for many common actions. Pressing “W” would trigger the “Slow Jam Loop” sound, pressing “A” would trigger “Rain”, and so on. The “Q” on the keyboard has triggered playback of the “Fog Horn” sound. This screenshot shows a simple set of 4 sounds, arranged in a convenient 2x2 grid. A third press will cause the sound to play once again. Press it again while playback is occurring to stop or pause it (depending on the tile's Allow Pausing setting, adjustable in the Inspector). Simply press a key once to trigger the sound. With Farrago, your keyboard itself becomes a sound effects machine. Another 40 sounds can be accessed by adding the option key (Again on a QWERTY layout, these are Option+1 -> Option+0, Option+Q -> Option+P, Option+A -> Option+, and Option+Z -> Option+/). When Farrago is in the foreground, you can press 40 different keys (On a QWERTY layout, these are 1 -> 0, Q -> P, A ->, and Z -> /) to trigger a unique sound. Triggering Sounds via Keyboardįarrago provides fast and powerful keyboard-based playback. The Stop All button will immediately end playback of all active tiles.The Fade All button will fade out playback of all active tiles over 2 seconds. The Pause All button will pause or unpause any currently active tiles. Master Playback Controlsįinally, the right-most section of the LCD shows the standard playback controls. Paused tiles are also shown here, in a dimmed state.
When a tile is playing audio, its bubble will appear in color in the LCD, with playback progress indicated visually. In the center of the LCD, Farrago shows bubbles for each tile that's currently active. If you wish to mute all playback entirely, click the speaker to the left of the slider. These can be set to distinct volumes, after which you can fade between them by clicking the A/B control. To make it easy to duck audio down, Farrago offers two master volume levels, Master Volume A and Master Volume B. This slider controls the level at which audio from Farrago plays. The left-hand side of the LCD contains Farrago's Master Volume control. The Now Playing LCD area, at the top of Farrago's main window, provides useful controls and information.
If you wish to use the mouse, you can instead click a tile. You can also highlighting a tile and press the return key. You can press a tile's keyboard shortcut on your keyboard. Each set in Farrago can contain up to 80 sounds, one per tile on the screen, and you can have as many sets as you need.Īudio playback of your sounds can be triggered in three different ways.
The left side of the window allows you to switch between sets, while the center displays all sounds contained within the selected set.
FARRAGO SOUND SETS MANUAL
Support → Farrago → Manual Audio Playbackįarrago's main window provides access to all sounds currently available within the program.