Settings

Access Settings from the toolbar. The settings overlay has several sections.

General

Setting	Description
Projects folder	Override the default user presets location
Node presets folder	Override the node presets location
Subgraphs folder	Override the subgraphs location
Modules folder	Override the modules location
Extra scan paths	Additional folders to scan for presets and content

Factory content

MNodes can ship a curated factory collection: ready-made node presets, subgraphs, modules, and projects (with their artwork). General has a button that downloads this official pack from the Hub and installs it into the Factory folders of your Library.

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The button label tells you the current state:

• Install Factory Content while nothing is installed yet. It is highlighted with your theme accent colour so it is easy to find.
• Reinstall Factory Content once a pack is installed. Reinstalling only refreshes the official content; it never touches your own work.

Where the content lands:

• Factory content goes into read-only Factory folders inside your Library.
• Your own work lives under User and stays untouched.
• Anything you download from the Hub stays separate too.

Reinstalling only writes to the Factory folders. It can never overwrite or delete your User content or your Hub downloads.

Three ways to get factory content

1. The General button above downloads and installs the official pack from the Hub.
2. A one-time prompt on first run ("GET FACTORY CONTENT?") offers the same download. Accept it and the pack installs with your consent, or skip it and it stays quiet from then on. If a download fails (for example the server is briefly unreachable), MNodes offers again next time you launch instead of giving up.
3. Drag a .mnpack file onto the graph to install a local pack straight from disk.

Needs an active license

Every way of getting factory content (the button, the first-run prompt, the Hub download, and dropping a .mnpack) needs a valid license. Nothing is downloaded or installed until you have activated a correct serial. See License below.

MNodes records which version of the pack you have, so a later reinstall only downloads when the Hub has something newer.

Audio / MIDI

Setting	Description
Audio driver	Select audio driver (ASIO®, WASAPI, CoreAudio, etc.)
Audio device	Choose your audio interface
Sample rate	Set the sample rate
Buffer size	Set the audio buffer size (lower = less latency, more CPU)
MIDI input device	Select MIDI controller (standalone only)

TIP

In plugin mode, audio and MIDI settings are managed by your DAW. These settings only apply to standalone mode.

On Windows, the standalone app ships with ASIO driver support for the lowest latency with audio interfaces: pick your interface's ASIO driver under Audio driver. The native Windows drivers (WASAPI, DirectSound) remain available and stay selected by default.

ASIO is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.

Multichannel input and output

MNodes opens in stereo by default, so existing sessions are unchanged. The main input and output buses can each widen to up to 8 channels, independently of one another.

In the standalone, enable more than two input or output channels here in Settings > Audio / MIDI to work with a multichannel audio interface. Once the bus is wider, an Audio In node can read those extra inputs and an Audio Out node can feed those extra outputs.

TIP

You set the channel count on each node with the Channels slider on the Audio In and Audio Out nodes. See the node reference for the details.

Appearance

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Settings has an Appearance section again. It themes the whole interface, and the UI updates live as you make changes. Appearance is a personal preference saved in your UI settings: it is not baked into your projects or presets, so sharing a project never carries your colours with it.

Text Contrast

A Text Contrast slider at the top of the section raises the opacity of dim elements (faint secondary text and subtle icons) toward fully solid. It keeps each colour's hue intact, so nothing washes out toward white or black: dim elements simply read more clearly. It defaults to 0 (no change) and you can push it as far as you like.

Colours

Each colour has its own picker:

Colour	What it paints
Background	The base colour for panels and the UI
Main	Text, borders, and UI accents
Audio	The Audio wire colour
MIDI	The MIDI wire colour
Data	The Data wire colour
CV	The CV wire colour
Graph Background	The node graph canvas fill
Grid	The graph grid lines
Node Body	The card fill behind every node
Panel Grid	The front-panel grid lines

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Eyedropper

Every colour picker has an eyedropper button in the swatch strip, drawn in your theme's Main colour, to grab a colour from anywhere on the screen. Click it to enter pick mode, move the mouse to preview the colour under the cursor live, and click anywhere to apply it. Press Escape to cancel.

On Windows the cursor turns into a crosshair while you pick, and the click is consumed so it doesn't fall through to whatever is under the cursor. On macOS it uses the system colour sampler.

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Skin presets

Built-in skin presets give you a full look in one click, and you can build your own from there. You can also import and export "look" files to save a palette or share it with someone else.

Edit tools

While you are tuning a look you also get:

• Reset to factory to return to the default palette.
• Randomise to roll a fresh set of colours.
• Undo / redo for the colour edits you make here.

License

Setting	Description
License status	Shows the current license state and the name of this computer
Active licenses	Shows how many licenses are currently active. MNodes can be used on up to 3 computers simultaneously
Activate	Enter your email and serial to activate MNodes on this computer
Version info	Current plugin version
Deactivate this Computer	Release the license from this computer so it can be used on another one. You can also manage your licenses from your account at marionietoworld.com