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Track Quick Controls
Quick controls and automatable
parameters
The quick controls feature has one special extension: you
can use quick controls not only to access certain parame-
ters of the current track, but also to control all automatable
parameters. This makes it possible to use the Quick Con-
trols tab of a dedicated track as a kind of “mini mixer”, con-
trolling parameters on other tracks. However, you should
use this function with caution, as you might accidentally
modify parameters on other tracks.
Proceed as follows:
1. Create a new, empty audio track and open its Quick
Controls tab.
This track has no events or parts.
2. Hold down the [Ctrl]/[Command] key and click on the
slot for quick control 1.
The parameter selection context menu is opened, but it lists not the pa-
rameters of the current track, but all automatable parameters.
3. Open the VST Mixer folder.
The pop-up lists all channels available in the mixer of your
current project.
4. Now assign a parameter of one particular channel to
quick control 1, and another parameter of another channel
to quick control 2.
Here, quick controls 1–8 have been set up to control the main volume
of eight audio tracks.
The Quick Controls tab has become a “secondary” mixer,
dedicated to quick-controlling parameters on other tracks.
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Quick controls that are assigned that way cannot
work when saved as track presets.