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CUSTOM CONSOLES
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Opening the Control Assignment window
The Control Assignment window is where you
make all the settings for a control item. This
window automatically appears when you first
create the control item. You can revisit the window
at any time. To open the Control Assignment
window for a control item:
1 Put the Console window into Edit mode (with
the Edit Console mini-menu item highlighted as
shown in Figure 56-2 on page 688).
2 Double-click the control item.
As a shortcut, you can skip step 1 above and simply
double-click right next to the control item (not
directly on the control item itself).
Making the target assignment
The target assignment is made in the Control
Assignment dialog box when you first create the
slider, knob or button as described in “Creating a
slider, knob, or button” on page 690. The target can
be changed at any time in the Control Assignment
window (see “Opening the Control Assignment
window” above).
The target assignment consists of two things: the
type of MIDI data and the target, which is the place
where the data will be sent. To access the target
settings, open the Control Assignment window for
the control item as described in the previous
section.
The target data type is the specific type of MIDI data
that the control item will send and monitor. A
control item only monitors one track and one data
type at a time.
Sliders, knobs, and buttons in Digital Performer
can control just about any type of MIDI data,
including:
■ Continuous controllers
■ Switch controllers (either as switch controllers or
as continuous controllers)
■ System exclusive messages
■ Notes and velocities
For velocities, the slider or knob modifies the
velocities of notes in the target track as they play.
The
Target is the place where the data will be sent
by the slider, knob or button. The target can be:
■ A track
■ A MIDI device
Tar g e t t r a ck
When the target is a
track, the data from the
control item is sent to the track, which then records
and plays the data. In turn, the control item
monitors the material it recorded in the track,
animating as it does so. However, the control item
only records into that one track in that one
sequence; it cannot control another track in
another sequence, unless you reassign it.
Tar g e t M IDI d e v ic e
When the target is a
MIDI device, the data from the
control item is sent to the track in the current
sequence which is assigned to that device. This is
the most flexible of the target assignments because
it doesn’t matter what sequence is playing at the
time. As long as one of its tracks is assigned to the
device, the control item data will be recorded and
monitored in the track.
Echo data from source to target
This option, when checked, causes the control item
to pass source data directly to the target
destination, exactly as it was received. When