User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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Right Screen Controls: The right side permanently controls channel levels, mutes, and solos for eight
channels at a time. The right screen up/down arrows will cycle through the channels, eight at a time.
Tracktion will display colored backgrounds to indicate the eight channels under control.
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Faders Row: The faders control channel levels. Moving a fader, or selecting the fader row will
light the fader row button LED. The right screen will show channel names on the top row and the
fader value in dB in the bottom row.
Pressing the
fader row select button a second time after it is already lit displays the Pan value
for the associated channels on the screen and allows the fader to control panning. Each subse-
quent press of the fader row select button will switch between fader and pan control/display.
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Button Row 1: The top button row controls channel mutes. Pressing a button or selecting the
button row 1 lights the button row 1 LED. The right screen will show channel names on the top
row and the mute status (blank for unmated, “muted” for muted).
• Button Row 2:
The bottom button row controls channel solos. Pressing a button or selecting the
button row 2 lights the button row 2 LED. The right screen will show channel names on the top
row and the solo status (blank for unsoloed, “soloed” for soloed).
Left Screen Controls: The left screen controls plug-in parameters. You can select plug-ins for editing
as described below, or you can select a plug-in onscreen by clicking on it. The ReMOTE SL left side will
change to display the newly selected plug-in.
The screens initially show you the names of the tracks, eight at a time. If more than eight tracks are
present in the edit, pressing the left screen up/down arrows cycles through all the tracks, eight at a
time. Pressing a button under a channel name in Button Row 1 selects that channel for plug-in editing.
The left screen will now change to display all plug-ins for the selected channel. If more then eight
plug-ins are present on the track, pressing the left screen up/down arrows cycles through all the plug-ins
on the track, eight at a time. Pressing a button under a plug-in name in Button Row 1 selects that plug-in
for editing. Pressing the Drum Pad Row select button navigates back one level, rst to the plug-in list,
and then to the track list.
After selecting a plug-in, eight plug-in parameters are displayed on the screen for editing. The plug-in
parameter name is displayed on the top row and the plug-in parameter value is displayed on the bottom
row. 16 of the plug-in parameters can be controlled at once: the rst eight on the encoders and the sec-
ond eight on the knobs. You can shift the parameters under control eight at a time using the left screen
up/down buttons. Pressing the left screen up button will shift the second eight parameters up onto the
controls, and the third eight parameters onto the knobs.
Note that the rst row of eight plug-in parameters is special: the rst slot is the Track Name, the sec-
ond slot
is the plug-in name, the third through fth slots are blank followed by the seventh slot showing
the Tracktion Dry
Level (if present for the plug-in), and the eighth slot the Tracktion Wet Level (if present
for the plug-in). This is necessary to make sure the ReMOTE specic *.vstxml parameters start in the
correct position at slot one.
After the rst row, the parameters are organized in one of two ways. If a valid *.vstxml le is present
for the plug-in under control, the parameters will be displayed in the order presented in the *.vstxml le.
If there is no *.vstxml le present, then the parameters will be displayed in parameter order. In addition,
all parameters
should obey the naming described in the *.vstxml le using the shortName attribute for
six characters. VST parameter structure and *.vstxml les are discussed in the Novation ReMOTE SL
documentation and in the VST 2.4 SDK found at http://www.steinberg.net.
• Button Row 1: As described above, use button row 1 to select tracks and plug-ins for editing.
Once a plug-in is selected, it will lock the plug-in under control so it will not follow the selected
plug-in in Tracktion. The associated button row 1 select button LED will light when a plug-in is
locked.