User Manual

REMOTE - PLAYING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
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A basic MIDI keyboard and an additional control surface
The keyboard and the control surface should be connected to separate MIDI ports (or use separate USB connec-
tions). Here, the basic MIDI keyboard is your master keyboard - it is used for playing and recording via the sequencer.
You can have the control surface follow the master keyboard - this lets you tweak the parameters of the device you
are playing (just like in the example above).
You can also lock the control surface to another device in the rack - this lets you play one device while adjusting the
parameters of another.
A MIDI keyboard with controls plus one or more control surfaces
This is the ideal setup! Again, all keyboards and control surfaces should be connected to separate MIDI ports (or use
separate USB connections). The master keyboard is routed via the sequencer track and you can use its controls to
tweak the parameters of the device you are playing. The additional control surfaces could be locked to the Main
Mixer or to different devices in the rack.
If you have additional MIDI keyboards locked to devices in the rack, you can also play and record on their correspond-
ing sequencer tracks simultaneously. This is perfect if your band has several keyboard players who want to play and
record their tracks simultaneously into Record!
For example, if you lock a control surface to the Main Mixer, you will always have control over levels, pans and addi-
tional channel strip parameters - see “Remote controlling the Main Mixer” and “Remote controlling multiple mixer
channels”. You could also have dedicated controls for transport, Undo/Redo, sequencer track MIDI focus selection,
etc.
Remote basics
Parameters and functions for each Record device are mapped to controls on supported control surface devices. As
soon as you have added your control surface(s) in the Preferences, you can start tweaking parameters!
• By default, all connected control surfaces follow the sequencer’s current Master Keyboard Input.
This means that you set Master Keyboard Input to a track in the sequencer to route the control surface(s) to the
track’s device in the rack. You can bypass this functionality by locking a control surface to a specific device - see
“Locking a surface to a device”. Or you can simply use Remote Override mapping (see “Remote Override” for spe-
cific parameters - these will then be mapped to the selected controls regardless of Master Keyboard Input.
• The Record device associated with the track with Master Keyboard Input will have its parameters standard
mapped to logical controls (faders, buttons etc.) on the control surface device.
E.g. if a Subtractor (Record+Reason) has Master Keyboard Input, your control surface will control the most impor-
tant Subtractor parameters. If you set Master Keyboard Input to a track connected to an NN-XT (Record+Reason),
the control surface will now control parameters on the NN-XT device, and so on for each device. There are stan-
dard mapping variations for most devices as well - see “About mapping variations”.
! Please refer to the separate “Control Surface Details” pdf document for device related information.
• Supported control surfaces with dedicated transport controls will be standard mapped to the equivalent trans-
port controls in Record.
If you do not have transport controls on your control surface you can still map transport controls to controllers us-
ing Remote Override mapping - see “Remote Override mapping”.
• Other important functions such as switching target track in the sequencer, selecting patches, Undo/Redo can
also be remote controlled.
See “Additional Remote Overrides...”.