User guide/Controls, themes, tips

Controls, themes, tips

Reactivity, seek and volume, three theme layers, UI size, workflow tips.

Controls & Themes

Tune The
Whole Thing

The console is the control surface; this page is the small print around it.

Reactivity, everywhere it matters

Every visual answers the Intensity fader: pull it down and each visual keeps only its own calm motion, push it up and every reaction hits harder, on a scale marked up to 11. On the console, Bass, Mid and Treble add color from each part of the music (Pro), and Smooth eases the reaction. Every knob is one setting for every scene; the Reactivity panel holds Light-Sync, FX Pulse, Motion Warp and MOTION, which opens the Motion window (Pro and Studio). Sensible defaults sit in the middle and work for most music.

The seek bar

The progress bar in the Playback zone is draggable: click and drag anywhere on it to seek, on every source that supports seeking. Volume lives right next to it for sources that allow control; anything that does not is greyed with a hint, not hidden.

Three layers of theme

Add the Knobs / Sliders switch for how the board's controls render, and a UI Size setting (Setup, OUTPUT) for readability at couch distance. Themes change the chrome, never the visuals.

Set it once, forget it

Everything persists across sessions: intensity, your Look, theme, accent, source preferences, custom preset folders, the last-used look. Every console knob is one setting for every scene; a preset saves the console and opens with its scene until you pick another. Close it, reopen it, it is your rig.

Presets

  1. Set the console the way you like it. Every knob you turn is your setting for every scene.
  2. To keep a look for one scene, click SAVE, then a slot number (1 to 5). The preset holds every knob, the scene’s own controls, Intensity, God Rays, LUT, the Look and Motion. On MilkDrop and WarpField the scene’s controls are one setting for the whole engine (Particles, Emitter, Coupling and Persist are one setting shared by both), so presets do not save them.
  3. That preset now opens whenever the scene comes up, and a small dot on its number shows it. Click another saved slot to make that one the scene’s preset instead. A scene without a preset plays your own settings.
  4. Turn a knob while a preset is loaded and your setting changes everywhere; the slot’s number stays underlined until you SAVE it again or pick another.
  5. DEFAULT puts the scene back on your own settings with its controls as shipped, and no preset opens with it until you pick one. With Cycle on, each visit loads the scene’s next saved preset.
  6. DEL, then a slot, deletes a preset. To start over, press MOTION on the console and, under Console knobs, press Reset console settings: every knob goes back to IKANDY’s defaults, and Intensity, God Rays, LUT, the Look, Motion and your presets stay as they are. Right click a knob to reset just that one.
  7. To stop presets loading at all, switch presets Off with the switch beside the Presets label. Every scene then opens on your own settings, and your saved presets come back when you switch it On.

A preset’s Look and Motion apply on Pro and Studio. A preset never raises Intensity when it is all the way down. God Rays and LUT are one switch each for every scene, off until you turn them on.

Keys

Setup, KEYS lists every key, mouse and controller shortcut, and you can click a key to rebind it. A key that opens a feature above your plan shows PRO or STUDIO beside it; hover the tag for what it means. Esc closes menus and leaves span, and Ctrl+Shift+D saves a diagnostic file for support.

Workflow tips

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