I just published this article called 9 Smaart
short cuts that will make your life easier and I wanted to go through them with you so
first one spectrum soundcheck mode what's that when the first things that I
do want to get into smart is I want to make sure that everything is operating
correctly that I'm receiving all of my inputs I'll take a look at my inputs in
the configurator here and I see them all coming in and I can hit play on all of
my spectrum inputs here I see all the meters over here but over here in the
spectrum if I have a lot of things coming in they're kind of all on top of
each other and I can press the z key to sort of rotate around and put different
ones on top and see what's going on but another nice way to view this is just to
press the 0 key that breaks all of these measurements out into their own little
windows here and one fun thing is that you can even change these to
spectrograph if you want so quick way here just to see that everything is
working correctly and verify your inputs
next number two align all
visible traces so imagine that we're back in transfer function and I'm taking
a look at my measurements here and I've already set the delay on all of them
make sure that they're all working correctly now these would be a lot
easier to look at altogether if this is a measurement of the same thing if I had
all of these traces on top of each other now a longer way to do that would be to
just go one by one and turn them down using command arrow
keys or you can grab them like this oops
you
okay so as you can see it's a little bit more tricky to grab the right one so up
put this one here and then I got it click on this one again but it's not the
right one okay so much easier way to do this is to just
put the one on top that you want to align everything to and then shift click
somewhere to bring them all together so maybe this is easier for me to look at
maybe this is a little bit easier maybe this is a little bit easier and now I
can say oh okay these microphones are all aligned here and then as they get
farther away there's more room game whatever okay so that's how you can
quickly align them by shift clicking on a trace and it'll all visible traces
will align to that frequency now here's a problem I've introduced offsets into
all of these traces so if I click this window here I can see Wow look at all
those offsets and I can clear them by clicking reset Y but my next shortcut
here is clear all DB offsets so I can clear them one at a time with the Y key
switch to the next tres Y key or I can clear them all once with command Y so a
way to work quickly is might be to shift click on a trace to move them all into
place let me see what these all look like on top of each other and then
quickly get rid of that with command Y next hide all visible traces oh this is
such a good one and we'll help you work so much faster so a lot of times maybe
we're looking at multiple microphones and then I do a capture all with shift
space I save those now I have all these traces and my live traces let's say that
I do even one more so now I've got a bunch of traces all visible here and I
need to clean this up so I can move on with my work command shift H makes
everything go away and now if these weren't playing anymore there would be
nothing on the screen quickly zoom in so zoom presets are great I recommend that
you use these use whatever you want option Z gets you there you can change
them up here and now as I have my measurements going option 1 zoom into
the low end and then 3 4 I go up the chain until 5 takes me back to the
default view notice that I didn't go back to the
default view in the phase graph so options one through four changed the
magnitude and the phase oom but option five only takes me back to the default
if I wanted to quickly go back to default view on both of these graphs
though I can just click out here now my next favorite one is the Scrolls
I didn't know about this one for a while but if I were to zoom here in the bottom
and then use the right and left arrow keys that's gonna take me up and down
both graphs I like that a lot because a lot of times I'm zoomed in and then I
just need to see oh what's right up beyond here and I can zoom up that way
and then obviously up and down are gonna help a lot too especially in the phase
graph if I'm having a hard time dealing with some of these wrap arounds and I
say let me rotate this around okay now I kind of have it more of a straight line
to visualize here so that's scrolling recapture this is a
good one so you can come up with a lot of traces here over in the data bar
really fast right and that's fine but imagine let me turn off all of these
except for just this guy
and we'll go back to default view now imagine I saved this one I immediately
realized oh that was a mistake I did something wrong okay let me make a
change instead of saving another trace and then deleting this one so that I
don't have to figure it out later when I come back and I'm like what was tf7 I
don't remember why I did that so I'll just click on this one and then shift
command space do you want to overwrite this return says yes keep in mind that
you should probably play with this to see how the offsets work notice that if
I grab my live trace here and I put in an offset like this and now I'm gonna
use the mouse so you can see what's happening here recapture okay it does
not it does recapture but the offset is not taken into account so I'll prove
this to you by moving this up here same trace but doesn't it doesn't take the
offset into account now if I click on the live trace and just hit the spacebar
okay now it takes the offset into account so just good to know about that
stop the generator this is such a good one so if you want to make more friends
than enemies or if you want to make less enemies and you want to put on a less
pink noise loudly into the room while everyone else is trying to work one of
the best ways you can do that is by turning off the generator whenever
possible so the way I usually do that is that I may be looking at some
measurements and let's say that right now the generator is logic over here
it's just playing back some pre-recorded measurements but let's say I turn the
generator on I leave it on for a few seconds until my measurements stabilize
and then right before I hit spacebar or shift space I'll hit the G key really
fast so geez and just like that I don't usually have any problem or you know
lose any information I still have good data it gets recorded but now as I'm
figuring out what I need to call this where am I in my process so I can
remember what I did and why I save this the generators off okay if you're next
to your mixing board or your system processor and you can reach the mute
that's another way to do it you can't set this to do this automatically and
that's because I guess an audio other audio analyzer it's like definitely
INSAT live you can select an option so that when you hit the capture trace key
it turns off the generator makes a lot of sense there's not a future like that
in smart yet but you can build one let me show you really quickly how to do
that so if you open up Automator on the Mac create a new document
we're going to create a quick action
okay and we're going to the first thing we need to do is go to utilities and say
run Apple script make sure this up here says automatic nothing I think that's
important not 100% sure and then we're just going to record what we want our
script to do so I'll hit record and the first thing I'll probably need to do is
make sure that smart is selected so I click on the smart window then I want to
maybe in my shortcut here my automation I want to make sure that all these
measurements are playing and then the next thing I'll do is hit the G key to
turn the generator on let it run for about four or five seconds until the
measurements stabilize and then do my process where I hit the G key really
fast and then the shift spacebar so G shift space and then I can stop the
Automator now keep in mind that it was recording all this those things in real
time so you'll probably need to rehearse this a little bit but now you'll see
that if I hit play on this guy maybe it's doing it in the background then I
just can't see it
yes it is doing it okay
visible to me so let's let it finish there it's done okay so imagine that
this is done now and I would hit save and I would call it something like
capture all I'm not going to do that now cuz I've already done this before so I
would save that I would go to System Preferences and I'll come back to that
in a second but I would go to keyboard shortcuts services now down here I've
got my capture all and I want to give that a shortcut I gave mine a control
space shortcut sign yours to whatever you want one important step or this
isn't going to run under security privacy accessibility you have to add
Smart 8 so you can just go to the file menu grab the application and drag it in
here and make sure it's checked so now I can close this I'm gonna close Automator
without saving this don't save because I've already created this before now if
you do this all correctly then under smart services you should see capture
all and I could just click it here but I created a shortcut for this so let's
imagine that this is off and so now I can click control space
there goes my mouse
and it's done and now the generator is off and I can name this something
fantastic okay as you can see I need to fix this
it only saved one trace that was on top so obviously I set my automation to do a
space and just capture a single and not shift space to capture all so often go
back and fix that but anyway that's how you could use Automator to basically
come up with any series of things that you want to automate if you are doing
this kind of thing over and over again this could really save you some time and
you can speed that stuff up all right the last shortcut get rid of the clock
so in every audio analyzer I've seen there's always a clock and I think that
is from the old days of Sim 3 well sin 3 is still around I shouldn't say old days
but that had a clock on it so you can see that mine is gone but if I click
option K it brings it back and then the letter K switch is back and forth
between SPL meter and the clock I just like to get rid of mine because I've
already got a clock right up here and I don't like having more things on the
screen that I then I need alright so those are all the shortcuts if you have
a shortcut that helps you in your work please let me know and comment below
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