Operation Manual

THE SEQUENCER
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Track handling
! How to handle note lanes on tracks is described on page 63.
Track elements
In the picture below three tracks are shown. From the top down you have the Trans-
port track (which is always present and cannot be moved or deleted), a Mixer track
and a track belonging to a Thor device. The Thor track has Master Keyboard Input (in-
dicated by the keyboard symbol) and two note lanes. The upper note lane is record
enabled which is indicated by a lit Record button) and the lower note lane is muted
(indicated by a lit Mute (“M”) button.
Routing Master Keyboard Input to a track
The standard way of routing MIDI to a device in the rack is to go via the sequencer.
When MIDI is routed to a track in the sequencer, the notes and controller data are au-
tomatically echoed to the corresponding device.
D To set Master Keyboard Input to a track/device, click on the track in the
track list to select it.
The device icon will get a red border and a keyboard symbol below it, indicating
that the track will receive incoming note data.
D Only one track at a time can have Master Keyboard Input (i.e. note input).
If a track has several note lanes, only one note lane at a time has Master Keyboard
Input - the record enabled lane.
D If you select another track the Master Keyboard Input will follow.
✪ This is the “Standard” mode of setting Master Keyboard Input. If you pre-
fer to set Master Keyboard Input independent from the track selection,
select “Separated” mode in the Preferences (Keyboards and Control
Surfaces page). In that mode, you click the device icon to set Master Key-
board Input to a track, regardless of selection.
Selecting tracks
Track specific operations apply to one or more selected tracks.
D Clicking on a track in the track list selects it.
A selected track is dark gray. By default, Master Keyboard Input also follows track
selection but this can be changed as described above.
D Selecting a track will automatically scroll the rack to bring the corre-
sponding device into view.
D You can also select the next or previous track in the list by using the up
and down arrow keys on the computer keyboard.
Selecting several tracks and edit focus
D It is possible to select several tracks, by using standard [Shift] or [Ctrl]
(Win)/[Command] (Mac) selection techniques.
This allows you to e.g. move or delete several tracks in one go.
D In Edit mode you can only edit/view the contents of one track at a time
(the last selected track will have edit focus).
Mute and Solo
To mute a track means to silence it, so that no data is sent from the track during play-
back. This can be very useful when you are trying out different versions of an arrange-
ment, for bringing elements in and out of the mix during playback, etc. To solo a track
means all other tracks are muted.
D To mute (silence) a track, click the corresponding Mute (M) button.
The clips on all lanes of the track will be muted.
A red M button indicates a muted track.
To unmute the track, click the M button again. Several tracks can be muted at the
same time, in which case you can unmute them all by clicking the “master” M but-
ton at the top of the track list.