Navigating - DigiDesign Command|8 Manual

Navigating

Command|8 lets you select windows, bank
other tracks to its faders, and zoom in and out
using the controls in the Navigation/Zoom sec-
tion.
Displaying Pro Tools Windows
The Plug-in, Mix, and Edit switches in the Win-
dows section open and select their correspond-
ing window in Pro Tools.
Plug-in Opens or closes the currently targeted
plug-in window. If no plug-in windows are
open, the switch opens the window for the first
insert on the currently selected track will open.
An open plug-in window is not necessarily
the current target. See "Plug-ins and In-
serts" on page 38 for details.
Mix Opens or closes the Mix window.
Edit Opens or closes the Edit window.
Banking Tracks to the Faders
To bank eight tracks at a time to the faders:
Press Bank. When enabled, its LED is lit.
1
Press the Left or Right Arrow keys in the Nav-
2
igation section to bank to the previous (left) or
next (right) eight tracks in the session.
Repeat as necessary.
3
To show full track names in the LCD, press
Display Mode plus the corresponding chan-
nel Select switch. The selected track's full
name is displayed across the LCD for as
long as you depress Display Mode and the
Select switch. Release both to return to the
previous view.
30 Command|8 Guide
To scroll tracks across the faders one at a time:
Press Nudge. When enabled, its LED is lit.
1
Press the Left or Right Arrow keys in the Nav-
2
igation section to nudge one track to the left, or
one track to the right.
To manage banking, rearrange tracks in the
Mix and Edit windows.
Displaying MIDI Controls on
Instrument Tracks
The Instruments View in Pro Tools contains
MIDI controls that can be displayed on Com-
mand|8 data encoders.
To display MIDI controls ("Input Mode"):
Press the Pan switch to make sure you are in
1
Home view.
Hold the Command/Control switch and press
2
the F5 switch.
The MIDI controls appear on each channel as
follows:
Rotary encoder: MIDI Volume
Select switch: MIDI Mute
MIDI Input, MIDI Output, and MIDI Pan
controls can only be accessed on-screen.
To exit display of MIDI controls:
Hold the Command switch and press the F5
switch again.