User Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
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• MIDI Controller
Select this if you have a MIDI controller with programmable knobs, buttons or faders (but without keyboard).
You need to set up your control surface so that the controllers send the correct MIDI CC messages, depending on
which Record device you want to control - check out the MIDI Implementation Chart in the Record Documentation
folder. If your control surface has templates or presets for Reason devices, these can be used if you run Re-
cord+Reason.
• MIDI Keyboard with Controls
Select this is you have a MIDI keyboard with programmable knobs, buttons or faders. Again, you need to set your
controllers to send the right MIDI CCs.
After selecting a model, proceed with selecting MIDI input port as described above.
About the Master Keyboard
One of the control surfaces can be the Master Keyboard. This is like any other control surface, but it must have a key-
board and it cannot be locked to a specific Record device (in other words, it always follows the MIDI input to the se-
quencer). This is the surface you use to play the instrument devices in Record.
D The first surface with a keyboard that is added (or found by auto-detect) is automatically selected to be the
master keyboard.
This is shown in the Attached Surfaces list on the Preferences page.
D If you want to use another surface as master keyboard, select it in the list and click the “Make Master Key-
board” button.
You can only have one surface as master keyboard at a time.
D If you don’t want to use any master keyboard at all, select the current master keyboard surface and click the
same button (which is now labeled “Use No Master Keyboard”).
Other functions
D To edit a surface, double click it in the list (or select it and click Edit).
This lets you change its name and MIDI port settings, if needed.
D To delete a surface, select it in the list and click Delete.
D You can turn off a surface by deactivating its “Use with Record” checkbox.
This could be useful if the surface is connected to your system but you only want to use it with another program.
There is also an “Advanced MIDI” page in the Preferences. This is only used for External Control MIDI buses and for
MIDI Clock Sync input. All hands-on MIDI control is set up on the Keyboards and Control Surfaces page.
Example Setups
There are several possible variables when it comes to what type of setup you are using. Please read on.
A single MIDI keyboard with controls
With this setup, the keyboard is your master keyboard, which means it is always routed via the sequencer (it controls
the device connected to the sequencer track with Master Keyboard Input). To control another device, you move the
Master Keyboard Input (the keyboard symbol in the In column in the track list) to another sequencer track.
You can, however, use Remote Override to control parameters on other Record devices (or global Record functions
such as transport).