Element User Manual

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Element is free plugin software for Linux, macOS and Windows. Defacto modular audio software for routing, control, and scrtipting. Control Element with with MIDI or your computer’s keyboard and mouse.

Manual

• Introduction
• UI
  • Plugin Manager
  • Virtual Keyboard
  • Automatic Connections
  • Setting A Graph’s MIDI Channel
  • Switching Graphs
  • Velocity Curves
  • Keyboard Commands
  • Keyboard Splits
  • MIDI Clock
  • Native VST Presets
• Preferences
  • General
  • Audio
  • MIDI
  • OSC
  • Updates
• Scripting
  • Overview
  • Types
  • Examples
  • API Docs

Developers

• Building Element
  • Debian/Ubuntu
  • Arch Linux
  • Mac OSX
  • Windows (MSVC)
• C++ Style Guide
  • Don’t Repeat Yourself!
  • Layout & Whitespace
  • Naming Conventions
  • Classes
  • Miscellaneous
• Lua Style Guide
  • Indentation and Formatting
  • Documentation
  • Variable names
  • Tables
  • Strings
  • Line lengths
  • Function Declaration Syntax
  • Function calls
  • Table Attributes
  • Functions in Tables
  • Variable Declaration
  • Conditional Expressions
  • Blocks
  • Spacing
  • Typing
  • Errors
  • Modules
  • OOP
  • File structure
  • Static checking
• Miscellaneous

Appendix

• OSC Commands
• Plugin Specifics
• Glossary of Terms