General Options

Graphics

Enable meters

Although each meter has its own options, this option allows you to quickly turn on/off all meters.

Show tooltips

When enabled this allows informational notes to appear when the cursor/pointer is hovering on top of the features' controls

Enable animation

Allows you turn on/off the animated appearance of dialog boxes.

Enable animated focus

Allows you to turn on/off the animated white brackets which indicate the control where keyboard commands are sent.

Show background grid

Toggles the visibility of the grid in the background of Alloy's display and also will hide the glare layer on top of Alloy's interface.

Frame rate limiter

Allows you to set the speed (frames per second) that Alloy should use to display and update meters. In most cases the default will provide smooth displays while still allowing adequate processing time for audio. If your PC hardware allows it, you can increase the frame rate for smoother animation. On the other hand, if you are running Alloy on slower hardware or notice graphics performance problems in your host application, you can set the FPS value lower to limit the amount of CPU Alloy uses for drawing.

Opacity

Allows you to control the opacity or transparency of the Alloy UI. This is helpful when working with automation, for example, to be able to have the Alloy UI in front but be able to "see through it" to the automation curves on the track view of the host app. Setting partial transparency does require additional CPU, but there is no CPU penalty when opacity is at 100% (i.e. the feature is not being used). If you find this feature useful, be sure to note the keyboard shortcuts for it. The slider will be disabled in host applications that do not support this feature.

Brightness

This allows you to adjust the brightness of the Alloy interface. The Alloy interface brightness will vary depending on how your monitor is configured. This can help you compensate and make it easier to see and read the interface controls.

Dim controls when bypassed

When this option is enabled, each module's controls will be dimmed when the module is bypassed. Modules can be bypassed in several ways: global bypass, module bypass, crossover band bypass, and mid/side channel bypass. This feature helps to remind you when a module is bypassed, so that you don't make adjustments to a bypassed module unintentionally.

Solo/bypass indicators

Allows you to set the behavior of the Solo/bypass indicators. Options are Blinking red, Solid red, or None.

Host

Delay compensation

Using some of Alloy's more CPU intensive settings and algorithms may result in a delay of the signal. That is, Alloy needs some time to "work on" the audio before it can send it back to the host application. That time represents a delay when listening or mixing down. Fortunately, many applications provide "delay compensation" which is a means for Alloy to tell the application it has delayed the signal, and the host application should automatically "undo" the delay on the track. If your host application supports delay compensation, enable this option.

If your application doesn't support Alloy's delay compensation feature, or skips/stutters with this option turned on, you can manually correct the delay offset in the host application (i.e. manually edit out the short delay of silence). You can also turn on Alloy's Zero Latency option. To help you perform manual correction, the delay Alloy introduces is shown below "Total System Delay" in both samples and milliseconds.

See Delay Compensation documentation for more info.

Zero Latency

When Zero Latency mode is active, look-ahead processing in Alloy's Dynamics, Limiter and Transient modules will be turned off. With Zero Latency mode inactive, Alloy will impose a small delay to account for look-ahead processing, allowing the modules to react to incoming audio material quicker. If your host does not have delay compensation, leave Zero Latency mode on to keep all of your audio aligned.

View Buffers

This launches the View Buffers dialog, which lets you inspect the buffer sizes which your host application is using.

See Buffer Sizes documentation for more info.

Host Sync

This launches the Host Sync Viewer window which displays information about your current session/host application including Tempo, Transport State, Time signature, etc.

Other

History depth

Lets you set how many levels or steps are remembered in the History dialog.

Keyboard Support

Keyboard support must be set to full for all Keyboard shortcuts to be available. Available options include Full (full keyboard support), Minimal (only TAB, arrow keys, and ENTER), or None (Keyboard shortcuts turned off).

Smooth Global Bypass Transitions

This features enables a gentle crossfade for smoother transitions when toggling Alloy's Global Bypass control.

Copy singleband Settings to multiband

Enabling this option will copy the single band settings of a module over all bands whenever you switch that module to multiband mode.