Specifications

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Overview of Custom Fader Modes
The four Custom Fader modes are covered in detail later in
this section:
Custom Groups Mode Lets you create and recall up to 48 cus-
tom arrangements of tracks on D-Control that are indepen-
dent of Mix/Edit groups in Pro Tools.
Mix/Edit Groups Mode Lets you recall Pro Tools Mix or
Mix/Edit groups and display them on the Custom Fader chan-
nel strips. You can also activate and delete Mix or Mix/Edit
groups from this mode.
Tracks Mode Lets you bring all tracks of a particular type to
the Custom Fader channel strips. Track Types include Audio
tracks, Auxiliary Input tracks, MIDI tracks, Instrument tracks,
Master Fader tracks, VCA Master tracks, and Hidden tracks.
Plug-In Mode Lets you focus the controls of two separate
plug-in on the two available Custom Fader channel banks. A
special expanded Plug-In mode focuses the plug-in header
controls (such as Bypass, Compare and Safe) on the channel
strip Mute switches.
Two additional modes work in conjunction with these Cus-
tom Fader modes:
Custom Fader Flip Mode Lets you flip rows of encoder controls
to the faders on the Custom Fader channel strips.
Custom Fader Map Mode Lets you map individual encoder
controls to faders on the Custom Fader channel strips on a
track-by-track basis.
Custom Fader Preferences
Setting the Maximum Custom Fader Bank Size
You can independently set the size of each of the two available
Custom Fader banks for each of the Custom Fader modes. See
“Maximum Custom Fader Bank Size” on page 41.
Setting the Custom Fader Justification
You can set the location of the two available Custom Fader
banks on the control surface. See “Custom Fader Bank Justifi-
cation” on page 42.
Displaying Hidden Tracks in Custom Faders
You can set D-Control to show hidden tracks in the Custom
Fader views. See “Display of Hidden Tracks in Custom Faders”
on page 42.
Custom Fader Controls
The Custom switch, Groups switch, Master switch, and
Plug-In switch in the Custom Faders sections light when the
corresponding Custom Fader mode is active.
The Map switch and Flip switch work in combination with the
Custom Fader modes (except Master Faders mode), and have
no independent effect.
The Lock switch and Window switch function both in the
Custom Fader modes and independently. See “Lock Switch”
on page 65.
Custom Groups Mode
Custom Groups mode lets you create a custom collection of
tracks and arrange them in any order in either of the two
available banks of Custom Fader channels. You can create up
to 48 independent Custom Groups in a session.
Custom Groups are useful for temporarily associating tracks
that are not part of a Pro Tools Mix/Edit group. Also, because
you can add multiple instances of the same track to a Custom
Group, you can use this mode, in conjunction with Flip mode
or Map mode, to map multiple parameters from a single track
onto adjacent channel faders.
Custom Groups are created and recalled entirely on D-Con-
trol, and are independent of Mix/Edit groups in Pro Tools.
D-Control Custom Groups are not reflected on-screen in
Pro Tools. Custom Groups are saved in the Pro Tools session
file, and move with the session to any other system that sup-
ports D-Control operation.
Custom Fader controls
Map switch
Flip switch
Lock switch
Window switch
Custom Groups switch
Mix/Edit Groups switch
Tracks s witch
Plug-in switch
Bank/Cycle switch
Custom Faders
display