User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Quickstart Guide
- 2.1 Connect Your Console to the Sound Card or External I/O
- 2.2 Create a New Session and Set the Preferences
- 2.3 Add Empty Racks
- 2.4 Add Plug-ins for Sound Processing
- 2.5 Snapshots
- 2.6 Create Processing Groups
- 2.7 Saving in MultiRack
- 2.8 Recall Safe Mode
- 2.9 Overview Window: Viewing the Status of All of Your Racks
- 2.10 Controlling MultiRack with MIDI
- 2.11 Show Mode
- 2.12 Shortcuts That Are Always Available
- 2.13 Automatic Recovery
- Chapter 3 - MultiRack Windows and Controls Explained
- Chapter 4 - MultiRack Menus
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2.10 Controlling MultiRack with MIDI
Since FOH situations demand that you keep your hands on the console and your eyes on
the show, you may not always want to control MultiRack using a mouse and a computer
display. Instead, you may choose to control MultiRack using your digital console or other
familiar MIDI hardware controller for greater efficiency.
The following MultiRack functions can be controlled via MIDI:
• Navigation between Racks and between plug-ins
• Global controls such as Rack or Plug-in On/Off, Mute, etc.
• Selected Plug-in parameter controls
• Snapshot recall
How is MIDI Used with MultiRack?
Important MultiRack functions can be assigned to a MIDI hardware controller using the
Remote Controller Editor, which is supplied with MultiRack. Assigning is simple: On the
Editor’s interface, select the MultiRack function you wish to control, and move the desired
knob or press the desired button on your MIDI controller to establish an assignment. Even
when you have Racks full of processors, you can only control the plug-in that’s currently
being displayed. This way, you always know which plug-in parameter you’re adjusting. So
when controlling MultiRack via MIDI, you will always first select the Rack and plug-in you
want to address, and then adjust its parameters.
The Controller Strip
A MultiRack Session can have up to 64 Racks, each containing up to eight plug-ins. Since
every plug-in has several parameter controls, remote control of so many different variables
could be a logistically complex task, and would require users to re-map MIDI links each
time the configuration changes. MIDI mapping is simplified in MultiRack by using a matrix
that sits between the plug-in and the MIDI controller. This matrix assigns key parameter
control knobs and buttons to fixed matrix positions so that MIDI assignments always make
sense, regardless of type of processor. For example, when using dynamics processors, the
matrix usually assigns the first variable MIDI position to Threshold, the second to Ratio, the
third to Attack, and so forth. With EQ processors, the first variable position is usually Input
Gain, followed by Band One Gain, Band One Frequency, etc. The matrix is reflected in the