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A project takes up to 16 channels. The timeline draws 4 at a time, in the order they are in; you reach the rest by paging with the arrows.

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Creating

Three routes lead to the same place:
  • The Add Channel button at the foot of the actions column.
  • The Add channel button inside the organizer.
  • The Shift + C shortcut.
Every new channel is born with the mode’s default color —blue in digital, magenta in analog— which you set in General Settings. Once all 16 are in use, the buttons say so: “All 16 channels are in use”.

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The channel organizer

Opens from the Channels button in the header, which shows how many you have out of the maximum. Inside, one row per channel with everything you can do: At the bottom, the count: “N of 16 channels”.
There must always be at least one channel, and at least one visible. The buttons that would break that rule are disabled with the reason in the tooltip.

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From the timeline

Each channel has its own name card on the left and its gear on the right.

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On the name card

  • The name, edited in place.
  • The signal color.
  • The grid subdivision (÷n): how many grid lines are drawn per step. With 1 there is one line per step; with 2, subdivisions at half a step; with 3, at a third, and so on.
  • The offset in steps: shifts the drawn waveform horizontally, in fractions of a step between −1 and 1. The slider snaps in 1/subdivision increments, so the offset always lands on a sub-grid line.
The offset does not touch the data: it moves the drawn trace. The signal you export and the one that travels to the device are the usual ones.

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In the gear

The gear is marked when the channel has hidden dividers, so you can tell its view has been changed.

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Duplicating: how the copy is named

The copy takes the original’s name with an -n suffix. If Channel 1-2 already exists, the next one is Channel 1-3: it continues from the highest number in use, so two copies never share a name even if you deleted one in between. The name is trimmed to 24 characters including the suffix. The copy’s color is the first one neither the original nor its other copies are using, so you can tell the copies apart at a glance. The offset, the subdivision and whether it is hidden come out the same as the original.

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Hiding

A hidden channel leaves the timeline but keeps its signal. On export there is a checkbox that decides whether it goes into the file. Between two visible channels, the hidden ones in between are marked with a dashed line and their name. If there are several in a row, the marks stack; and if they do not all fit, it sums up as “N hidden channels”.

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Paging

With more than 4 channels the page arrows appear. The tooltip tells you where each one goes —“Go to page 2 of 4”— and when there is nowhere to go it says so: “You are already on page 1 of 4”. The 1 to 4 shortcut jumps to the channel in that position within the page, at the same step.

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Row height

By default, fixed channel height: every page draws channels at the same height, even if a page holds fewer. Turning it off in General Settings makes a page with a single channel stretch it to fill the screen.