Novation remote25sl User Guide

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Use the VA Synth template for the first two templates Synth 1 and Synth 2. Switch between each one to select

one of the 303’s. Only a limited set of controls are available for MIDI control. Tweak each control to see  active

controls. There is no template label for the 808 and 909 templates. Use blanks and mark as per controls.

Use the VA Synth template. Overdrive is not present on these synths so the control alters keyboard tracking.

LFO2 delay, Waveform and Keysync are not available for MIDI control. Osc Waveform and Semitone controls on

the label control Osc Control 1 and Control 2. In template 2 Sliders 5 and 6 control Pitch Envelope.

It is not possible  to select OSC waveform type via MIDI or SYSEX therefore Encoder 1 controls OSC1 PWM

depth. Sliders 5-8 are used for part effects,panning and level control. There is no octave control via MIDI there

button 9 sets Unison On and Off.

Use this template for controlling instruments that conform to General MIDI 2. (They may need to be switched to

this mode). Use the template label,’General MIDI 2’. Note that the controls are limited.

Cubase uses a set up file which is included on the Remote Driver CD Rom and this file is also available from the

Novation website. To import this into Cubase Click on the devices tab at the top of the Cubase menu bar and

select “device setup...” from the drop down menu. Click on the Generic Remote line from the list at the left of the

pop up page. Click on the import button at the right of the pop up page. Import the Remote 25 setup.xml file from

the CD Rom or from the hardrive if this file has been downloaded from the Novation website. Click the Open but-

ton to import this file. To use the template it will be necessary to select the Remote 25 as the MIDI input. 

All controls have been set to transmit on MIDI channel 16 across each of the 4 electronic templates. Hence when

using the generic remote with the Remote 25 in Cubase it is advisable to exclusively reserve MIDI channel 16 of

the Remote MIDI port to solely control Cubase. Do not use MIDI channel 16 for MIDI or virtual instruments!
Template 1 controls MIDI tracks 1-8       Template 2 controls MIDI tracks 9-16

Template 3 controls MIDI tracks 1-8       Template 4 controls MIDI tracks 9-16

Logic uses a set up file which is included on the Remote Driver CD Rom. This file is also available from the

Novation website. To import this into Logic Click on the Options tab at the top of the Logic menu bar and select

‘key commands’ from the drop down menu. Click on the Options tab at the top of the Logic menu bar and select

‘Import Key Commands’ from the drop down menu. 
Locate the Logic 5.prf file on the CD Rom or from the hardrive if this file has been downloaded from the Novation

website. Click the ‘Open’ button to import this file. To use the template, select the ‘Remote 25’ as the MIDI input

port. 
For most button functions there is no further set up required. For the sliders, pots and encoders to work with the

audio mixer it will be necessary to create MIDI channel splitters and link these to the audio sliders from the envi-

ronment. See the more detailed pdf included on the CD-ROM for full details.

The Sonar template has been designed to work with the Cubase template label. There is a cakewalk generic sur-

face file 'ReMOTE Sonar' included on the remote CD-ROM which should be copied to the shared control surface

folder within the Cakewalk / Sonar program folder directory. This can then be loaded from Sonar by clicking on the

tool bar menu and selecting Cakewalk Generic Surface. From the box that appears select the Remote25 from the

pull down presets list.

The Ableton Live template has no template label. Ableton refers to it's preferences file as 'template set'. There is

an Ableton Live template set file called "template.als" within the ReMOTE Ableton file included on the remote CD-

ROM. This needs to be copied to the Ableton Live preferences program folder directory but  this will replace the

existing template file. Because of this it is suggested that the existing template.als file within Ableton is renamed

as  templatebak.als so that it can be restored if necessary. No further set up is needed, the Remote 25 will auto-

matically be assigned when Ableton is run.