The Wiring view provides you with many features to connect and organize your plugins efficiently.
You can select multiple blocks by dragging over them with your mouse. You can select all blocks (explicitly excluding the Audio I/O blocks) by pressing Ctrl+A (Cmd+A on Mac). If you want to select specific blocks, hold the Shift key down and then click on each individual block (1):
You can easily drag, copy and reposition multiple blocks together.
The design surface is virtual, giving you much more room to lay out your plugins without cluttering or placing them too close together. You can zoom in or out to focus on a particular area of the wiring view. Use the arrow keys on your PC keyboard or the horizontal and vertical scroll bars (2) to move around. When you press and hold the Alt key (Option key on a Mac), a tooltip appears (3), notifying you that you can click on the design surface and drag it to navigate through it. While doing this, note the minimap in the left upper corner (4) that provides a quick overview of the whole design surface and the position of your layout.
You can use your mouse wheel to zoom in or zoom out the design surface in the Wiring view. If you also hold down the Alt key (Option key on a Mac), then Auto Fit and Auto Zoom options will appear in the upper-right corner (5); clicking the Auto Fit button places all your plugins within the current screen and fits them to the current zoom level. Clicking the Auto Zoom button zooms all your plugins to fit the current screen. Zoom Out and Zoom In buttons are also available (6), both of which allow you to set the desired zoom level.
The Wiring Activity mode (7) allows you to easily review the audio levels and MIDI activity in the Wiring view. There are three modes of the Wiring activity:
- None - Turns off the feature.
- Simple - The color of audio wires changes from dark blue to lighter nuances or blue, and MIDI wires light up to show MIDI activity.
- Meters - The color of audio wires changes from green to red and MIDI wires light up to show MIDI activity.
This feature allows you to easily understand your audio and MIDI, discover where your audio might be too high, or troubleshoot your setup.
You can also save multiple interconnected blocks as favorites for quick reuse; select the blocks you want, right-click on your selection and select Save as Favorite... (refer to the Selected Block contextual menu section for more information):
Favorites can be dragged in from the file system, and doing so will automatically insert the required plugins. Favorites also show up in the Wiring view contextual menu and the Quick Plugin, Favorite or Preset Finder dialog.
When you select multiple plugins, you can Center or Evenly distribute them; refer to the Selected Block contextual menu section for more information.
Further reading:
Wiring view
Wiring view contextual menu
Plugins
Plugin contextual menu
Selected blocks contextual menu
