MIDI Controller Desk

The MIDI Controller Desk is the place where you can easily manage your MIDI Mix, especially control MIDI volumes, panning, what sound must be used on channel x etc...

It also features 4 pages of 8 freely configurable faders that can be used for special Controllers, for example, to control the filter of a MIDI synth sound.

All changes are made for the MIDI Player indicated in the Player field at the top-left.

There are 2 ways of storing MIDI Mix changes into a Composition :

  1. Static MIDI Mix
    You can insert single Events in the current Composition Part, at the current position.
    To do so, right-click/command-click on any fader. This will popup a little menu that allows you to write the value into the current Composition. Read more on this in Controlling Knobs and Faders. The current XProgram can be stored via the 'Options' button !
    Make sure you have selected the proper Part in the current Composition, since the Event will be created in the selected Part, at the current Composition position.
    Of course, when a similar Event already exist there, the Event is not created, but updated !
  2. Dynamic MIDI Mix
    Record your fader actions by clicking the Record button, or pressing the appropriate FastKey.
    Just as with any other standard recording.

Use the 'Page' button to go to the different pages.
The User A, B, C and D pages allow you to assign any Controller to a fader by right-clicking/command-clicking on a fader.
Also here you can use the above methods to store a MIDI Mix.

The MIDI Controller Desk is called up by clicking the icon at the right of a MIDI Player, or by [Shift]+clicking the 'Mixing Desk' button in the Sound window.

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