With the tab 
pTA Settings active you have the following buttons available: 
- Select- Mode:
- shows a list of defined modes and prompts for the name of the mode to be in use;
- Modify- this- Mode's- Settings:
- modifies the set-up of the currently selected mode; 
- Show- this- Mode's- Settings:
- shows the set-up of the currently used mode; 
- Show- Settings- of- Mode...:
- shows a list of defined modes and prompts for the name of the mode to be shown. 
- Create- Mode:
- creates a new pTA mode.
 If an instrument specific template file is available (mode_template_WSNAME.odbin/userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midason the Linux backend computer) mode set-up will be read from the template file. Currently the maximum number of modes is limited to 6;
- Copy- Mode:
- does what it says; 
- Rename- Mode:
- does what it says; 
- Delete- Mode:
- does what it says; 
- Save- Mode:
- saves mode into an ASCII file (*.odb) in directory/userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midason the Linux backend computer;
- Restore- Mode:
- reads mode information from an ASCII file (*.odb) located in/userdisk0/musr/exp/td_musr/midason the Linux backend computer.
- Note:
- A mode must be selected before it may be modified or used for data-acquisition. The last selected mode will be used when data acquisition is started.