User Guide

110 Chapter 4 M-Audio iControl
Arrow Up and Arrow Down Buttons
The iControl has channel strip controls for eight channel strips, which default to channel
strips 1 to 8. To access further channel strips, press the Arrow Up button. This switches
to channel strips 9 through 16. Press the Arrow Up button again to switch to channel
strips 17 to 24, or press the Arrow Down button to return to channel strips 1 to 8.
When using the Arrow buttons to switch between groups of channel strips, the
channel strips follow groupings of eight (starting from channel strip 1) unless the latter
channel strips do not make a complete group of eight. As an example, if a project has
19 channel strips, and the iControl is controlling channel strips 1 to 8:
 Pressing the Arrow Up button shifts to channel strips 9 to 16
 Pressing the Arrow Up button again shifts to channel strips 12 to 19
 Pressing the Arrow Down button shifts back to channel strips 9 to 16, not 4 to 11
Pressing the Arrow Up button, while holding down the Option button, jumps to the first
eight channel strips in the project. Similarly, and pressing the Option and Arrow Down
buttons jumps to the last eight channel strips in the project. To provide you with an
example, if a project has 64 channel strips, pressing Option-Arrow Up jumps to channel
strips 57 to 64, and pressing Option-Arrow Down jumps to channel strips 1 to 8.
Note: If the Generator, EQ, Effect 1, or Effect 2 button is lit, the functionality of the
Arrow Up and Arrow Down buttons are as described in the Generator, Effect 1, and
Effect 2 sections. See the preceding pages for details.
Channel Strip Controls
The right side of the iControl features eight rows of controls that you can use to edit
channel strips. Each row includes Select, Record Enable, Mute, and Solo buttons plus a
rotary encoder. The channel strip controls are described in the following sections:
Select Button
Pressing a channel Select button chooses the channel for channel-based editing, or
assignment commands. When a channel is selected, “Sel” is lit on the button.
Note: If the Track Info button is illuminated, the Select buttons behave differently. See
“Track Info Button” on page 108 for details.