10.6

58Control Surfaces Support Guide
• Track Info button: Press the Track Info button to activate Channel view. In this view, you
can use the Select (Sel) buttons and rotary encoders to edit global parameters of the
selected channel strip. The Record Enable, Mute, and Solo buttons retain their default
functions.
• Sel button 1 to 5: Switches the bypass state of the first five Insert slots.
• Sel button 6 and 7: Switches the bypass state of the first and second Send slots.
• Sel button 8: Not assigned
In Channel view, each of the Select buttons is lit when the respective Insert or Send
slot is enabled, and unlit when the slot is bypassed.
• Encoder 1: If the selected channel is an audio channel strip with a Noise Gate effect,
controls the Threshold parameter of the Noise Gate (if inserted in the selected
channel strip).
• Encoder 2: If the selected channel is an audio channel strip with a Compressor
effect, controls the Compressor’s Ratio.
Note: The assignments for Encoder 1 and 2 are optimized for GarageBand Real
Instrument tracks, which have a default Noise Gate and Compressor effect inserted.
• Encoder 3: Not assigned
• Encoder 4: Not assigned
• Encoder 5: Controls the Pan knob of the channel.
• Encoder 6: Controls the send level for the first send of the channel.
• Encoder 7: Controls the send level for the second send of the channel.
• Encoder 8: Controls the Volume fader of the channel.
• Generator button: If the selected channel strip is a software instrument channel strip,
pressing the Generator button assigns the rotary encoders to edit the sound generation
parameters of the instrument. These assignments are in groups of eight parameters.
The Arrow Up and Arrow Down buttons switch to the previous or next page of eight
parameters. Use of the Generator button has no effect if the selected channel strip is
not a software instrument channel strip.
• Effect 1 and Effect 2 buttons: Press Effect 1 to assign the rotary encoders to edit the
parameters of the third Insert slot of the selected channel strip. Press Effect 2 to assign
the rotary encoders to edit the parameters of the fourth Insert slot (if a fourth Insert
slot exists). The Arrow Up and Arrow Down buttons switch to the previous or next page
of parameters.
Hold down Option while pressing the Effect 1 or Effect 2 button to switch the bypass
state of Insert slots 3 and 4, respectively.
When using the Arrow buttons to switch between parameter pages—accessed through
use of the Generator, Effect 1, or Effect 2 button—the parameters change in groups of
eight (unless the parameters on the last page do not make a complete group of eight).
For example, if a plug-in has 19 parameters and the iControl is controlling parameters 1
to 8:
• Press the Arrow Up button to shift to parameters 9 to 16.
• Press the Arrow Up button again to shift to parameters 12 to 19.
• Press the Arrow Down button to shift back to parameters 9 to 16, not 4 to 11.