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Menus Almost all of Hauptwerk's menu functions can be configured to be triggered by MIDI. (Those that require browsing for a file or a prompt are the exceptions, together with the settings screens.) For example, you could set up a MIDI push-button to load a particular organ, select a particular temperament or set of combinations, or shut the computer down. Thus you can operate Hauptwerk fully without the need for a computer monitor, mouse or keyboard. Similarly, you can also assign computer keys to trigger menu functions as well as virtual organ controls. The General settings | Switch (MIDI) inputs screen is used in both cases to define the triggering events as properties of a logical 'switch input' (a logical representation of your MIDI switch or computer key):
You then use the General settings | Menu functions activated by switch (MIDI) inputs to define which menu function should be triggered by the logical switch input:
If you wish you can select several switch (MIDI) inputs to trigger any given menu function. This might be useful, for example, for registration sequencer controls, where you might want a toe piston and a thumb piston both to be able to trigger the 'next frame' function. As with all of Hauptwerk's setting screens, click on the pointer/question-mark icon immediately to the left of a screen's OK button:
... then click onto the screen background or a specific setting for a detailed explanation of its function. Finally, in the stand-alone and MIDI sequencing configurations of Hauptwerk, the commonly-used menu functions also have 'accelerator key combinations'. These are additional short-cut key combinations that can always be used to trigger the menu functions from the computer keyboard. Each key combination is shown to the right of its associated menu item:
On an Apple Mac, the Control and Alt (Option) keys are used in combination with another standard key. For example Control + Alt + F1 loads the first stand-by organ. On a Windows PC the Ctrl key is instead used in combination with the short-cut key. Most screen-shots in this guide, including that of the Functions menu above, show Hauptwerk running on an Apple Mac. On a Windows PC the Functions menu looks like this:
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