Chapter 13. Custom Fader Modes; Overview Of Custom Fader Modes - DigiDesign D-Control Manual

Chapter 13: Custom Fader Modes
With the Custom Faders feature, you can temporarily set aside
channel strips on D-Control and focus them on your own cus-
tomized groups of tracks, on Pro Tools Mix and Edit groups,
on specific track types, or on plug-in controls. Custom Fader
modes are only accessible on D-Control, and are not displayed
on-screen in Pro Tools.
On D-Control, Custom Fader channels are completely sepa-
rate from the surrounding channels on the control surface. All
tracks in the session bank around the Custom Fader channels,
and continue to behave normally in Pro Tools and on D-Con-
trol.
All Custom Fader modes essentially duplicate the controls on
tracks already represented in Normal mode, but let you rear-
range them to fit your workflow. Any control moves per-
formed on a Custom Fader channel are mirrored in the Nor-
mal mode channel if it is present on D-Control.
When channels are in use by any of the Custom Fader modes,
the blue indicator marked "CF," located to the left of the
channel fader, is lit.
The status of Custom Fader modes is saved with the Pro Tools
session. If you save and close a session with a Custom Fader
mode active, the session will reopen with the same mode ac-
tive.
Layout of Custom Fader Banks on D-Control
D-Control has available two independent banks of Custom
Faders (Left Custom Faders and Right Custom Faders), con-
trolled by the Custom Fader Control sections on the left and
right sides of the Main Unit.
Each of the Custom Fader banks can be controlled from the
Bank Select Matrix, with the corresponding group, track or
plug-in information appearing in the Soft Keys. The Custom
Fader bank currently targeted in the Bank Select Matrix is in-
dicated by yellow text in the Custom Fader display.

Overview of Custom Fader Modes

The four Custom Fader modes are covered in detail later in
this chapter:
Custom Groups Mode Lets you create and recall up to 48 cus-
tom arrangements of tracks on D-Control that are indepen-
dent of Mix/Edit groups in Pro Tools.
Mix/Edit Groups Mode Lets you recall Pro Tools Mix or
Mix/Edit groups and display them on the Custom Fader chan-
nel strips. You can also activate and delete Mix or Mix/Edit
groups from this mode.
Tracks Mode Lets you bring all tracks of a particular type to the
Custom Fader channel strips. Track Types include Audio
tracks, Auxiliary Input tracks, MIDI tracks, Instrument tracks,
Master Fader tracks, VCA Master tracks, and Hidden tracks.
Plug-In Mode Lets you focus the controls of two separate
plug-in on the two available Custom Fader channel banks. A
special expanded Plug-In mode focuses the plug-in header
controls (such as Bypass, Compare and Safe) on the channel
strip Mute switches.
Two additional modes work in conjunction with these Cus-
tom Fader modes:
Custom Fader Flip Mode Lets you flip rows of encoder controls
to the faders on the Custom Fader channel strips.
Custom Fader Map Mode Lets you map individual encoder
controls to faders on the Custom Fader channel strips on a
track-by-track basis.
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