Reading the Panel

Vizard’s interface is built as a front panel, not a settings screen: depth and position carry meaning the way they would on physical hardware, and color is reserved for two things only. Every page in this wiki names controls by these same terms.

Nine parts make up the whole vocabulary: Knob, Trough, Wheel, Pad, Rocker, Selector, Lamp, Meter, and Screen. A Knob is for the two or three parameters worth performing with; everything else numeric is a Trough, or a Wheel if the value wraps (phase, angle, hue rotation). A Rocker is binary state; a Selector is an enumerated choice; a Lamp reports one value; a Meter reports a level over time; a Screen shows live signal.

Color carries exactly two meanings. Green is signal and affirmative action: a live module, a selected waveform, Add. Orange is state and selection: an armed Learn, the active tab, a value currently being modulated. Where a control looks like it could be either, the app resolves it consistently: choosing an identity the signal takes on, a waveform, a blend mode, rings green, because it changes what leaves the machine; choosing where you are or what’s engaged rings orange. Nothing else on a resting panel is colored at all.

Grouping is elevation, not boxes: a raised plate is an object, a module or a bank entry, a recess inside it is a sub-section, and a well is a screen. A separator is a change in level, not a drawn line.

This is the short version, enough to follow the rest of the reference section. Each page names its controls by these terms and no others.