What are layouts? Read about layouts here

MD provides these basic file-type operations for layouts. Layouts use the file extension .mididesigner

• Config → Actions → New will remove all Page Banks (and therefore, Pages and Controls) and allow you to start from a blank slate
• Config → Actions → Mail Layout allows you to mail a layout.

• Config → Actions → Save Layout allows you to save your current layout with a name.

There are two ways to open layouts in MD:

1. Open In… — From Mail, Safari, Dropbox and many other apps, a long press on a .mididesigner file will allow you to choose MIDI Designer Pro to open your layout.
2. Config → Actions → Load Layout
   • Layouts you make available to MD via iTunes File Sharing can be found here
   • Layouts you have saved (using Save Layout) are also available here

The Page Properties Pane is used to adjust Page Properties, and perform actions on pages and controls.

• iPhone: Enter design mode → single tap on page name
• iPad: Enter Design Mode → double tap on page tab

Use the Page Actions Tab to add, delete move pages and other actions. Access Page Actions from the Page Properties Pane → Page Actions Tab

• Add a Page: from Page Actions Tab, use “New Before” or “New After”
• Move Page: From Page Actions Tab, use “Move Left” or “Move Right” to move the page
• Delete a Page: from Page Actions Tab, use “Delete Page” (there are two: use the top one)
• Copy and Make Similar refer are described below

• Also, you may use the Page Arranger: Page Properties Pane → Arrange
• The Page Arranger also allows for moving pages between banks, deleting and renaming pages.

Page Properties change the visual properties of the given page.

Access Page Properties from Page Properties Pane → Properties (first tab)

Change the name of the page displayed on the top tab.

• Highlight Color is the text color used by controls. It's also the text color the Page Tab (iPad only).
• Individual controls can specify their own highlight color
• Change the highlight color between black white and auto. When auto is selected MIDI designer will automatically change it depending on the background color of the page.

The textures and colors change the page's texture and color. Hitting random texture or random color randomly changes texture or color. the background.

• LED color slider changes the hue for the LED for all controls on a page. If set, individual Control's LED Properties will not be affected by the pages' LED Color Slider.
• Use Randomize LED Color to change the LED color randomly

Change the page background and the page-wide LED randomly.

MD provides these basic file-type operations for Pages. Pages use the file extension .mididesignerpage

• Page Properties Pane → Actions → Mail Page allows you to mail a lpage to yourself (as a backup
• age Properties Pane → Actions → Save Page allows you to save the current page with a name.

There are two ways to open Pages in MD:

1. Open In… — From Mail, Safari, Dropbox and many other apps, a long press on a .mididesignerpage file will allow you to choose MIDI Designer Pro to open your page.
2. Page Properties Pane → Actions → Load Page
   • Pages you make available to MD via iTunes File Sharing can be found here
   • Pages you have saved (using Save Page) are also available here

There are three ways to make copies of pages.

• Copy Page — this creates a copy of the page using control copies, which are linked to the controls on the copied page.
• Page Make Similar — this creates a copy of the page with independent controls. Initially, the new page's controls have the same relationships as the controls on the copied page.
• Save a page as a file, and then load the file: Controls are completely independent. Inter-control relationships on the page are maintained, but relationships to other controls in the layout are broken.

iPad: the right and left sides each have a Page Bank Indicator

iPhone: the Page Bank Indicator is on the Bottom Toolbar, to the right of the Page Name Display

• Touch the Page Bank Indicator to step through the banks sequentially.
• Alternately, you can use bank jump buttons
• you will not be able to see the page bank indicator in Performance Mode:
  • iPad: if the left side has one visible bank and the right side has one or two visible banks
  • iPhone: if there is only one visible bank

Press and hold on the banks indicator to the left of the more buttons to see the Bank Quantity Select Popover. Select any number from 1 to 8.

• Use the Page Arranger (from Page Actions, hit the “Arrange” tab).
• On iPad, you can also drag the Page Tab to move a page from one bank to another.