Assigning DAW Layers
Selecting Profiles
In order to use a DAW layer, you must first load a Profile onto it.
A Profile defines which control protocol (HUI, MCU or CC) is used to control the DAW or MIDI device, and also includes its
own five sets of soft keys set up for a specific DAW program. There are four standard Profiles supplied with Matrix:
- A HUI Profile configured for Pro Tools,
- An MCU Profile configured for Logic,
- An MCU Profile configured for Nuendo/Cubase,
- A Continuous Controller (CC) Profile for use with MIDI devices.
These Profiles provide starting points for the creation of more personalised Profiles. They include only basic soft key assignments,
allowing plenty of space for the user to configure their own Profiles. Profiles for other DAW packages can also be created from
the standard Profiles, using the Pro Tools standard Profile for DAWs that support the HUI interface, and the Logic standard Profile
for DAWs that conform to the MCU protocol. Note that the standard Profiles themselves cannot be edited. Profiles are
personalised by creating standard Profile copies which can then be edited, as described on the following pages.
The soft key assignments included in the standard Profiles are described on Pages 81 to 87 and the full list of functions
available within each protocol can be found in Appendix A.
Profiles are selected and managed using the
Profile Setup
area, found in the top
left corner of the
DAW
tab. The four standard Profiles are listed in the drop-
down
Selected Profile
menu, along with any derivatives of them which you
have created (see below). By default, Matrix layers contain no preassigned
Profiles. The user must therefore select a Profile before the system can control
a DAW.
If the Profile you select uses a different protocol than that currently assigned to
the layer selected in the Remote, or if the layer previously contained no Profile,
a pop-up will appear asking you to restart the Matrix console. Press
OK
.
Note that further Profile selections can be made before performing this restart. However, a number of functions within the
DAW tab will be locked out until the restart it complete.
Once all the necessary Profiles having been assigned to the required layers, cycle the power to the Matrix console to perform
the restart.
Note that, depending on the complexity of your setup, you may need to re-find Matrix in the Remote after the restart. This
is described on Page 10.
In order to cater for variations in the ways MCU DAWs return channel data to the digital scribble strip, there is a
Flip Scribble
Strips
box in the
DAW
tab of the Matrix Remote, located to the right of the
Edit Profiles
button. This switches the two rows
of the scribble strip, allowing Nuendo labelling to follow the Logic format.
Flip Scribble Strips
is enabled for the Nuendo
standard Profile and disabled for the Logic standard Profile. For other MCU DAWs, the labelling format described in control
surface documentation will enable you to ascertain whether or not to activate this function.
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