User manual NOVATION REMOTESL25 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] Once done, the ReMOTE SL can be connected using standard MIDI cables (not supplied) to and from the hardware device. FRONT PANEL DIAGRAM 2A 3A 1 2B 3B 4A 4B 5 10 9 6 7 8 1 Mode/Action buttons ­ select the mode (PLAY, EDIT, TEMPLATE, GLOBAL) or carry out an action (WRITE, TAP TEMPO) LCD Screens ­ view control data and Menus Scroll up/down buttons ­ move between Menu pages Row select buttons ­ select row of controls to display on the LCD screen above in PLAY mode Transport controls ­ assignable MIDI buttons used for Transport control in relevant Templates 6 Combined pitch bend/modulation joystick Assignable X/Y Touchpad ­ can control up to 4 simultaneous parameters (2 on each axis) Keyboard Data/Tempo encoder - press to select Template/Program/ Bank/Tempo change mode (depending on illuminated LED alongside) in PLAY mode. Rotate to select Template/Program/ Bank/Tempo Octave up/down buttons - transpose keyboard up and down an octave 7 2 A/B 3 A/B 8 4 A/B 9 5 10 2 Rev - 3. 0 REAR PANEL DIAGRAM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 External power supply (PSU) input Power select switch - selects between battery/ PSU, OFF and USB (from left to right) USB port 5 6 Expression pedal input MIDI Out (Port 2) MIDI Thru (Port 1) MIDI Out (Port 1) MIDI In (Port 1) 7 3 8 4 Sustain pedal input 9 USING THE SL If you are not familiar with Novation controllers, the ReMOTE SL is a comprehensive hardware surface for easy and rapid remote control of any sequencing software, plug-ins or external MIDI devices. There are 40 (36 programmable, 4 automap) onboard memory slots, all of which have been factory preset so that the ReMOTE SL works with all popular software and hardware from the moment the unit is first powered up. [. . . ] Pressing the encoder will change its action to one of three other choices: MIDI BANK select (sending MIDI Bank change messages; calling up Sound Banks on a software synth), MIDI PROGRAM select (sending MIDI Program change messages; calling up sounds on a software synth) and MIDI TEMPO select (sending MIDI Tempo messages). Use the ROW SELECT buttons to display names and values of a particular row of eight controls on the LCD screens, and use the scroll up/down buttons to change to additional screens where more details about the MIDI data assigned to each control is shown. Moving a control in a row that the values for which are not displayed will make that row the currently selected one shown on the screen above. AUTOMAP WITHIN PLAY MODE Templates 37-40 on the ReMOTE SL are the Automap Templates. Once Automap has been setup for a particular application (see section below), these Templates will automatically load when that application is booted up, and all instruments and sections within the session will be sensed by the SL and mapped to it. If using Automap with Reason 3 then simply mouse click on the MIDI In column of a particular section of the rack (within the sequencer section in the Reason software) to make this section active on the SL. If using Automap with Cubase SX3 then simply press the scroll up and down buttons on the top right of the SL to change between controlling different VSTs. Press the row select buttons on the SL once to call up a particular row's names and values on the screen above. Pressing the row select buttons repeatedly will change the function of some rows as controls can have up to 3 different MIDI values in Automap mode. Note that for the current version of Cubase, buttons on the SL cannot be used in Automap mode, only pots, encoders, sliders and trigger pads. The currently supported applications (Oct 2005) are Cubase SL3/SX3 (version 3. 1. 0. 933 or later) and Reason 3 (version 3. 0. 4 or later). Check the website for updates as other popular platforms are expected to follow shortly. SETTING UP AUTOMAP MODE On the Resources CD, there is an Installer (ReMOTE SL Setup) which will set up Automapping for either or both of the applications (Reason 3 and Cubase SL/SX 3). Double click the relevant version of the Installer (. exe file for PC and . dmg file for Mac) then simply check or uncheck the boxes when the Automap setup window appears during the install process. The ReMOTE SL must be selected as the MIDI controller within the application in use. Full details are available in the SL user guide on the Resources CD/Novation website. EDIT MODE (TEMPLATE INDIVIDUAL EDIT) This is the Template Individual Edit Mode, in which the nature of each assignable control (the data assigned to it and the way it behaves when pressed/moved/rotated) in any of the 36 standard Templates (Numbers 1-36) can be defined. Pressing the EDIT button when using a particular Template will move to the edit mode for that Template so that it can be modified. To call up a particular control for editing (slider, pot, trigger pad etc. ), simply hold down the EDIT button and move the control. Once activated, the Menu pages for that control will be displayed on the left LCD screen, with instructions on the right screen. To edit the control options, simply use the controls directly below each option on the screen; the buttons above and below the encoder increase and decrease the option respectively, whilst the encoder and pot will scroll through options. (See diagram on next page. ) 4 Rev - 3. 0 LCD SCREEN BUTTONS X INCREASE X INCREASE X/ DECREASE X ENCODERS BUTTONS DECREASE X POTS INCREASE X/ DECREASE X CONTROLS THAT EFFECT X Press the scroll up/down keys to the left of the screen to move to the additional edit page(s) for each control. [. . . ] To adjust the contrast of the screens, press the GLOBAL button once and then use the first or last encoder or pot to set the left and right screen value, respectively, between 0 and 15. Press the left scroll up button (next to the left screen) once, then use the first encoder/ pot/button to set memory protect to OFF. Once this is done, the WRITE button can be used to save GLOBAL settings. 5 Rev - 3. 0 WRITE BUTTON The WRITE button is used to save the current Template or Global settings into the onboard memory. To save the current Template (individual and common) settings, press the WRITE button in PLAY, EDIT or TEMPLATE mode (but not GLOBAL mode), making sure that the Memory Protect is set to OFF in the Global settings. [. . . ]