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Presentation View
The Presentation View is a clean, full-window display built for screen recording and live streaming. It shows the 16-channel visualiser and the key now-playing details on a refined near-black background, with none of the usual player chrome and no title bar (no playlist, no transport buttons, no traffic lights), so a window capture is a clean 16:9 with nothing extra in shot.
- Open or close it with
⌘9(Display → Presentation View → Show Presentation View). - Or click the green full-screen button on the main player. The player itself is a fixed size, so instead of stretching it out of shape, that button hands you the Presentation View filled to the screen, ready to record.
What it shows#
Across the top sits a slim header:
- The PXR MIDI Player wordmark, then the file name of the track that is playing.
- The selected MIDI output device, or the name of your custom port preset if one is active, shown as
DEVICE: .... - A live SysEx log down the centre, echoing each System Exclusive message as it is sent, newest at the bottom. It is the same headline summary you see in the SysEx Console, and it clears itself at the start of every track. If you would rather keep the header clean for a recording, switch it off with Show SysEx Details in Settings under Display.
- On the right, the current and total time above the format badge, tempo, time signature and current bar.
Below the header, the full 16-channel visualiser fills the window, alongside the global effect and key/chord readouts. Each channel row shows its number and status light, instrument name, volume and pan, a mini keyboard, and your choice of the meter bars or the scrolling piano roll.
Meter Bars or Piano Roll#
The right side of each channel can show either display, chosen from the same submenu and independent of the main visualiser mode:
- Meter Bars for the level meter style activity blocks.
- Piano Roll for the scrolling notes.
Switch between them under Display → Presentation View.
The on-screen controls#
Because the window has no title bar, its controls live in a small overlay in the top-right corner:
- A fill-screen button expands the view to cover the whole display, edge to edge, and tucks away the menu bar and Dock. Press it again (or Escape) to drop back to the window.
- A close button shuts the view.
⌘Wand Escape work too.
Both the pointer and this overlay hide themselves after a couple of seconds of stillness and reappear the instant you move the mouse, so neither sits in your recording.
Tip
How you opened the view decides what leaving fill-screen does. Come in from the main player's green button and dropping out of fill-screen closes the Presentation View and hands you straight back to the player. Open it from the Display menu and the same action simply returns it to a window, so it stays up for as long as you want it.
You can drag the window by its background to move it, and resize it from any edge. In windowed mode it holds a 16:9 shape whatever size you make it, so it always frames neatly for video. Fill-screen lifts that so it can cover a non-16:9 display corner to corner.
See it in motion#
Stills only go so far with a display built to move, so here is a full playback session recorded in the Presentation View itself.
Related pages#
- The Visualiser for the main 16-channel display and its modes.
- Player Views to compare the full window, Compact Player and Mini Player.
- SysEx Console for the full System Exclusive log.
- MIDI Output for choosing your device or a port preset.