Remote Control Settings


Remote Control window (Details expanded)
The Remote Control window defines the functionality of the remote control device being used. The Preset button can be used to load predefined presets, or to create new presets. The Info button shows information on the current settings if available. Use the MIDI In and MIDI Out boxes to select the MIDI devices corresponding to the remote control device.

The Clear button clears the highlighted action. The None preset can be used to clear all actions. If the Learn button is engaged any incoming midi messages will be mapped to the highlighted action. Custom mappings can be created easily this way.

Remotes which are not plain MIDI are translated to plain MIDI. Several Controller Types can be selected:

Controlling Mixer Sections

The Mixer Sections settings will typically equal the number of channel strips the remote provides. The highest possible value is 64.
The Effect Sends settings determines the number of Effect Send knobs that can be controlled using the remote.

There can be multiple Views. This is typically used to control multiple actions using a single rotary knob (View 1 = Pan, View 2 = Effect Send 1 etc.). The All Views button makes the highlighted action appear in all views. You'll probably want volume faders, transport buttons etc. to be in all views.

Controlling Effects/Instruments

The Effect Knobs settings determines the number of rotary knobs available for controlling effect knobs.
An effect can only be controlled while its user interface is visible on the screen. The knobs used to control effects will often be used to control mixer sections as well (pan knobs etc.). MultitrackStudio takes care of this automatically (there's no need to use views for this).

Effect parameter counts may exceed the number of available hardware knobs, in this case there will be multiple pages of parameters. You can assign the Effect Page Up and Effect Page Down actions to buttons, so you can step through the pages. Alternatively you can assign the Effect Page Up/Down action to a rotary knob, so you turn the knob to step through the pages.

Tip: You can rightclick a rotary knob in an effect/instrument window and choose 'Find on Remote Control'. This will

  1. Move to the page that contains the control.
  2. Flash the corresponding cell on the Remote Control Bar.
  3. For Mackie Control or HUI devices the LED ring around the knob will flash.
CLAP/VST3 plugins have rightclick menus too if the plugin supports that.For other plugins you can click (or even move) a control, and then rightclick the right-hand area and choose 'Find last clicked on Remote Control'.

Actions

The following actions can be controlled by the remote. actions marked (cc) should be controlled by a continuous controller (rotating knob or fader), all other actions are supposed to be controlled by a button.

The following actions control the Transport:

These actions allow for opening songs:

Note: MultitrackStudio takes care things work smoothly if "Save 'everything' in song" (see Preferences) is enabled. It won't show 'save?' prompts for unimportant changes like transport position. After loading a song transport will go to zero and looping will be turned off automatically.

These actions control a couple of recording related things:

These actions control mixer sections:

These actions control views and banks:

The following actions are used to control Effects and Instruments. These actions can share knobs with non-effect actions (eg. Effect Knob and Section Pan can be on the same knob, Effect Page Up and View Up can be on the same button etc.).

The following actions are used to select effects, sampler patches etc. These actions can share knobs with actions which are not in this group (eg. Selector Accept can be on the same button as Effect Close).