ICON P1-M, User Manual

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FAST FORWARD button - Activate the fast forward function of the DAW.
LOOP button - Activate the loop function of the DAW.
5. Knobs
The eight smooth, noiseless, endless rotary encoder knobs are generally
used for controlling the track pan position, aux send levels and EQ of your
DAW. You may also use them to adjust specific parameters within plug-ins and
virtual instruments, (as your DAW software allows). The push-button action of
the knob can be used to change modes of operation within the DAW (this is
DAW dependent) and the rotating action of the knob can be used to change
parameters of PAN, EQ, plug-in values etc.
6. Color-coded function buttons (5 buttons)
6a) -
This section of 3 control buttons are LED color-coded for different
functions on each layer. Switch between the color modes (along with those
in 6b) for different functions which appear in the 16 panel touch screen. The
functions can be rearranged in the iMAP to your own configuration.
6b) -
This section of 2 control buttons are LED color-coded for different
functions on each layer. Switch between the color modes (along with those
in 6a) for different functions which appear in the 16 panel touch screen. The
functions can be rearranged in the iMAP to your own configuration.
By default, purple and red modes (Labelled ‘U1’ (User 1) and’ U2’ (User 2)) are
set in the touchscreen, to hotkey functions, (i.e. Ctrl+C= copy). The other three
modes are set to ‘MIDI’ functions (i.e. ‘Pan’ as per the diagram)).
Users who wish to store their own ‘hotkey’ functions can do so in purple and red
modes, (using the ‘U[ser] 1 and U[ser]2’ buttons and also store MIDI functions of
their choice in blue, green, and orange modes.
This is to help users organize their programming. You can, if you prefer, assign
any MIDI function to any color mode and any hotkey to any color mode. It’s up to
you!
7. Dedicated function buttons
Read - Read function enabled/disabled
Write - Write function enabled/disabled
Touch - Touch function enabled/disabled
Latch - Latch function enabled/disabled
Trim - Trim function enabled/disabled
Off - Off function enabled/disabled
As the P1-M is a universal controller, these will illuminate or not depending on
your DAW. For example, in Cubase, the latter four buttons will not illuminate,
whereas in Bitwig, the latter two will not illuminate. This is part of the intelligent
design of the P1-M.