Does anyone know a macro or command shortcut for opening the QC panel on an open plugin? eg, if I open a plugin and want to see the QC assignments, I have to manually grab the mouse and click on the “QC” icon in the top right corner. OR: Is there a way to ALWAYS have that open by default, so that when I open a plugin, that top QC panel is already open.
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I would also like to know this, if anybody know the answer. Specifically if there is a setting to have it show by default would save me many clicks. Thanks
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To NEVER use my mouse OR OPEN a kerzillion windows, I finally started using the Inspector-QC (left zone) in ADDITION to the midi-remote focus QC. I have a nifty little Naked Board controller that gives me three sets of 8 knobs (24 total).
I MAP that Naked Board so that I have the top 8 knobs set to “Focus QC,” and the second set of 8 knobs to the “QC * (Quick Controls/Selected Track).” Those top Focus QC’s let me control whatever is open, be it the track VST or its plugin insert FX or the Inspector QC’s over in that Left Zone. THEN, when I’m finally settled on what I really want to use all the time from BOTH an instrument and ALL the various inserts WITHOUT opening all those darn windows and mousing open the top MIDI-remote feature, I do this:
- Click the down arrow in the [Left Zone] Inspector QC to automatically place all the instrument’s midi-remote assignments I’ve made into those Inspector QC slots. Knowing I’m not going to use all 8 slots, I use the first few that I’ll need, and leave the other slots EMPTY. That takes care of the instrument/track controls.
- Then, I open an FX insert plugin, and while it’s open, I
- Go back to the Inspector QC [left zone], click the L learn button AND
- Click the Inspector QC slot that’s next in line that’s empty, and
- Over in the Insert/FX window I can either select the midi-remote button if I’ve got that assigned, (or I can select the actual parameter).
- Then I try to remember to DESELECT that pesky L back in the Inspector QC and test it. If both the track instrument and the Insert FX windows are open, the appropriate knobs on my second row should move them appropriately. You’ll also see the parameters move appropriately in the instrument OR in the fx, AND also on the Inspector QC. (By the way, when you select the Inspector QC slot to have it Learn, it won’t light up, but it’s still selected, which I’m sure you know.)
- I can then go to ANOTHER, different insert/fx and add knobs from that FX, after clicking the L and doing that selection process.
(I deselect that L each time, or some bug doubles up my slot assignments, aaargh.)
There’s also some weird bug that sometimes makes my knobs double up, so I’ve found it’s helpful to make sure all the slots in the Inspector QC that I want to add from an FX/insert are EMPTy before I start.
When I’m done with this painful procedure, I then have access (and names) to knob-control any of up to 8 parameters from the instrument/track AND ALL its many FX inserts without ever opening ANy windows OR MOUSING anything ever again. !!
That limits me to 8 controls total, which is still more than I’ve ever needed or that my brain can handle… And a definite pain in the patootie to set up. AND, if I find there’s something that I haven’t assigned that I still want to adjust, I can still open that window --instrument or FX insert window–and mouse-open the midi-remote controls and use my top row of 8 buttons which are my Focus QC controls. The midi-remote’s so great for that.
If I’ve got an instrument window or an FX window open, I use my top row of focus-knobs to control that window, while the middle row of QC-8 still control whatever unopened window they’re supposed to control. If no window is open, both the top focus QC and middle row track QC will work on controlling the Inspector QC’s.
Now my dream is to be able to LABEL those QC’s in the Inspector window so I don’t have to keep track of them in my brain. They are labeled to an extent, but not enough…
It would sure be nice to have key command to turn on/off focus quick controls!
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