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12 Control Surfaces
A hardware control surface is device which typically has faders, knobs and buttons. It can be used to
control MultitrackStudio's transport, mixer and effects.
Control surfaces connect to a MIDI port on the computer. The MIDI In device to be used for the control
surface can be selected in the Studio menu's Devices window. The MIDI Out device should be specified as
well if the control surface has LEDs or motorized faders.
The MIDI In device used by the control surface can be selected as a regular MIDI In device (for recording a
MIDI keyboard) as well. In this case the control surface functions will have the highest priority, ie. only MIDI
MIDI keyboard) as well. In this case the control surface functions will have the highest priority, ie. only MIDI
messages which aren't mapped to a control surface action will be recorded by MIDI tracks. This mechanism
makes it possible to map some keys of a MIDI keyboard to control surface actions. You can, for instance,
use a key to invoke the "Alternate Take" action.
The Studio menu's Control Surface option pops up the Control Surface Settings window. Here you can
assign control surface knobs to specific functions using the Learn function. Ready to use presets for the
TranzPort and AlphaTrack (Frontier Design Group), the BCF2000 (Behringer) and the UC33 (Evolution) are
provided.
The Control Surface Bar, which can be made visible using the Studio menu's Preferences window, shows
the names of the Mixer Sections that are mapped to the control surface channels.
12.1 Control Surface Settings
The Control Surface Settings window defines the
functionality of the control surface being used. The
Preset button can be used to load predefined presets, or
to create new presets. The Info button shows
information on the current settings if available.
The Clear button clears the highlighted Action. The
Empty preset can be loaded to clear all actions. If the
Learn button is green any incoming midi messages will
be mapped to the highlighted Action. Custom mappings
can be created easily this way.
Control Surfaces which are not plain MIDI are translated
to plain MIDI. Several Controller Types can be
selected:
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MIDI Controller: plain MIDI messages
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TranzPort
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AlphaTrack
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Mackie Control
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HUI
The Mixer Sections settings will typically equal the number of channels the control surface provides. The
highest possible value is eight. The Effect Sends settings determines the number of Effect Send knobs
that can be controlled using the control surface.
that can be controlled using the control surface.
There can be multiple Views . This is typically used to control multiple Actions using a single rotary knob
(View 1 = Pan, View 2 = Effect Send 1 etc.). The All Views button makes the highlighted Action appear in
all views. You'll probably want volume faders, transport buttons etc. to be in all views.
all views. You'll probably want volume faders, transport buttons etc. to be in all views.
The Effect Knobs settings determines the number of rotary knobs available for controlling effect knobs. An
effect can only be controlled when its user interface is visible on the screen. The knobs used to control
effects can also be used to control mixer sections (pan knobs etc.), MultitrackStudio takes care of this
automatically (there's no need to use views for this).
automatically (there's no need to use views for this).
Control Surface Settings window