Novation ReMOTE SL COMPACT User Manual page 13

Write button
The WRITE button allows you to save settings and confirm actions on the SL Compact. Whilst in Play, Edit or Template
modes, pressing WRITE will save all changes to the currently selected template by first taking you to a screen where you
can set the template name and choose which of the 40 memory locations you want to save the template to. Once you have
set these, press WRITE again to confirm. Pressing WRITE whilst in the Global menu saves all Global settings.
4.7 TeMPLATeS - WHAT ARe THeY AND HOW DO I SWITCH BeTWeeN THeM?
All the settings for every individual control accessed in Edit Mode and the settings accessed in the Template Menu can be
saved to the SL Compact's internal memory, and then recalled. A group of saved settings is called a template.
As an example of the use of templates, you may have two synthesizers (software or hardware) that you want to control
with the SL Compact. To do this, you would have to program each control (set it to send the correct MIDI data and name
it appropriately) for one synth and save all settings to a memory location, then program every control for the other synth
and save all settings to a different memory location. This provides you with two templates, one for each synth. Now, to
control each synth, you can simply switch between the two templates.
There is space for 40 templates on the SL Compact. Templates 1-33 are pre-programmed standard templates (designed
by Novation to work with popular software instruments), templates 35- 36 are blank user templates and templates 34,
37-40 are Automap templates. You cannot delete any templates so that there are less on the SL Compact but you can
overwrite any template by editing and then saving it, or by uploading one from your computer.
There are four ways to switch between the 40 onboard Templates:
TEMPLATE UP/DOWN buttons – these are located next to the Speed dial in the top left corner of the SL Compact's front
panel. Pressing them steps up/down through the templates one at a time.
Quick Jump – pressing the TEMPLATE UP/DOWN buttons together calls up 16 templates on the SL Compact's display.
Templates 1-8 appear on the top row and 33-40 on the bottom row. Use the buttons directly above and below the screen
to select the corresponding template. For example, press button 3 on the row above the screen to call up template 3, or
press button 6 on the row below to select template 38. The PAGE UP/DOWN buttons can be used to scroll the top row
through Templates 1-8, 9-16, 17-24 and 25-32.
Menu/Function button – pressing the MENU button in Play mode accesses the Quick Menu that allows the core template
settings such as Transpose and Common port routing to be changed. The first option on this screen is template number,
which shows the currently selected template. Change this value, using the encoder above or buttons above and below, to
change the currently selected Template. When you press MENU again, the newly selected template will be active.
Use any assignable button or drumpad – any assignable button or drumpad within any template can be used to select
one of the onboard templates. This can be useful for quickly switching to a different template. To set this up, the button
must be selected for editing in Edit Mode and then the Control set to 'template' and the desired template number set.
See the Edit Mode section for details.
When you switch to a different template, the number and name will appear briefly on the display, before it switches to
showing the parameter names and values of the currently selected row of controls. To see the number and name of the
currently selected template, you can press and hold the PLAY button at any time.
The SL Compact will load template 1 by default when the keyboard powers up. To change the 'load up' template to a
different number, you must select the template you want to be active on start up, then press the GLOBAL button to
access the Global Menu, then press the WRITE button to save the Global settings. That template will now be active every
time the SL Compact is powered up.
If you have set the SL Compact up to work in Automap mode then the relevant Automap template will be selected when you
launch your music software, although you can switch away from and back to this template as you please using any of the
processes described in this section.