User Manual

SYNCHRONIZATION AND ADVANCED MIDI
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Input Focus and Play Focus
If you activate MIDI Clock Sync, the Transport Panel controls will be disabled, and Record will not run unless MIDI
Sync data is provided from an external device.
The Input Focus (MIDI + Audio) and Play Focus (MIDI Sync) buttons (located on the Record Hardware Interface) re-
late to how incoming MIDI and MIDI sync should be handled if there are several open Song documents. If you have
two or more Songs opened, and no MIDI sync is used, the currently selected Song (the document “on top”) always
has Input focus.
If MIDI Sync is enabled (which is global for all currently open Song documents), this functionality changes in the fol-
lowing way:
• If both “Play Focus” and “Input Focus” are activated for a Song, incoming MIDI data, MIDI sync (and Audio)
will be sent to this Song, regardless of whether another Song is currently in focus.
• If only “Input Focus” is activated for Song, and another Song has “Play Focus”, incoming MIDI (and Audio) will
be sent to the former and MIDI sync to the latter (i.e this Song will play back), regardless of which Song is cur-
rently in focus.
Advanced MIDI - The External Control Bus inputs
About the External Control Bus inputs
The External Control Bus inputs allow you to send MIDI directly to Record devices.
• These MIDI inputs are for controlling Record devices from an external sequencer.
This could be an external hardware sequencer or a sequencer application running on another computer.
• If you want to control Record from another sequencer application on the same computer, the preferred method
is using ReWire (see “Routing MIDI via ReWire 2”).
However, if the other sequencer software doesn’t support ReWire 2, the External Control Bus inputs can be an al-
ternative. In that case, you may need to use a MIDI routing application to be able to route MIDI from one program
to the other.
You set up the External Control Bus inputs on the Advanced Control page in the Preferences dialog:
D Select a separate MIDI port for each bus you plan to use.
Each bus provides 16 MIDI channels, for a total of up to 64 MIDI input channels. For example, if you have an ex-
ternal sequencer with two MIDI outputs, you connect these to two MIDI inputs on your MIDI interface and select
these two inputs for the first two busses on the Advanced MIDI page. You will then be able to send MIDI on up to
32 channels from the external sequencer to Record.
D Make sure you don’t select a MIDI port that is already selected on the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page
(or in the MIDI Clock Sync section).