DigiDesign Command 8 Manuel utilisateur

Command|8

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Version 8.0

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Communications & Safety Regulation Information

Compliance Statement

The model Command|8 complies with the following standards

regulating interference and EMC:

• FCC Part 15 Class B

• EN55022

• EN55024

• AS/NZS 3548 Class B

• CISPR 22 Class B

Radio and Television Interference

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the

limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the

FCC Rules.

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

We, Digidesign, 2001 Jumipero Serra Boulevard

Daly City, CA 94014-3886, USA

650-731-6300

declare under our sole responsibility that the product

Command|8

complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules.

Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this

device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device

must accept any interference received, including interference

that may cause undesired operation.

Communications Statement

NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply

with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15

of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide

reasonable protection against harmful interference in a

residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and

can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and

used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful

interference to radio communications. However, there is no

guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular

installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference

to radio or television reception, which can be determined by

turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try

and correct the interference by one or more of the following

measures:

• Reorient or locate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and

receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different

from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician

for help.

Any modifications to the unit, unless expressly approved by

Digidesign, could void the user's authority to operate the

equipment.

Canadian Compliance Statement:

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-

003

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme

NMB-003 du Canada

Australian Compliance

CE Compliance Statement:

Digidesign is authorized to apply the CE (Conformité

Europénne) mark on this compliant equipment thereby

declaring conformity to EMC Directive 89/336/EEC and Low

Voltage Directive 73/23/EEC.

Safety Statement

The AC-AC adapter for this equipment has been tested to

comply with USA and Canadian safety certification in

accordance with the specifications the following:

IEC 60065 2001.

Warning

Contents v

contents

Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Command|8 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s Included . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

System Requirements and Compatibility Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Digidesign Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

About www.digidesign.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 2. Installing and Configuring Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Example Setups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Command|8 Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Connecting Command|8 to Pro Tools and Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing Software for Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Connecting Analog Audio for Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Connecting a Footswitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Connecting MIDI Devices to Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Configuring MIDI Communication with Command|8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Enabling Command|8 in Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Communication Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 3. Command|8 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Command|8 Operating Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Command|8 Control Surface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

LCD Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Fader Strips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Console and Channel View Controls for Pan, Sends, and Inserts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Transport, Navigation, and Zoom Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Command|8 Guidevi

Control Room Monitor Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Modifier Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Stand-Alone Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

USB and MIDI Activity LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Chapter 4. Using Command|8 with Pro Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Controlling the Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Undo and Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Sends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Plug-ins and Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Creating Custom Plug-In Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Automation Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Software Synths and Rewire Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 5. Using Stand-Alone Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Overview of Stand-Alone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Stand-Alone Mode QuickStart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Selecting Stand-Alone Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Editing MIDI Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Presets to Save and Recall Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Appendix A. Utility Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Accessing Utility Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Viewing Command|8 Version Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Fader Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

LED Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

LCD Display Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Switch Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Encoder Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Burn-In Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 1: Introduction 1

chapter 1

Introduction

Welcome to the Command|8™ control surface.

Command|8 is a compact and flexible control

surface for Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE®, and

Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems, and supported

Avid®systems.

Command|8 Features

The main features of Command|8 include:

• Eight fader strips, each with a motorized,

touch-sensitive fader, rotary encoder, LEDs,

and Solo, Mute, and Channel Select switches

• Analog monitoring section with the following

features:

• Output and level control for mains and

headphones

• Two pairs of analog inputs, one for the

main mix from Pro Tools, one for alternate

sources

• One MIDI In port and two MIDI Out ports

providing 16 channels of MIDI input and 32

channels of MIDI output

• USB port for direct USB MIDI communication

with Pro Tools

• Large, bright LCD for data display

• 1/4-inch Punch In port for footswitch control

of recording

• Transport controls and mode switches

• Windows switches for Pro Tools display

• Navigation and Zoom controls

• Tactile control of track volume, pan, send

level, send pan, and record status, as well as

PRE™ (Digidesign mic preamplifier) gain

• Fast and convenient access to sends, inserts,

plug-in pages, pan settings, and other track

functions

• Five Function keys to access Utility, Fader

Mute, and MIDI mapping functions

• AC power supply designed specifically for

Command|8

• Stand-Alone mode with save and recall of up

to 8 snapshots

• Allows control of any device that supports

MIDI Continuous Controller messages

• Allows use of custom MIDI mapping

Command|8 Guide2

What’s Included

• Command|8 control surface

•USBcable

• Power adapter

• Command|8 Guide

• Registration Information Card

System Requirements and

Compatibility Information

Command|8 can be used with any supported

Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE system for tactile

control of recording and mixing. Command|8

can also be used in Stand-Alone mode and

mapped to control most digital audio worksta-

tions or devices that support MIDI.

Digidesign®can only assure compatibility and

provide support for hardware and software it has

tested and approved.

For complete system requirements and a list of

Digidesign-qualified computers, operating sys-

tems, hard drives, and third-party devices, refer

to the latest information on the Digidesign web-

site:

www.digidesign.com/compatibility

Digidesign Registration

Review the enclosed Digidesign Registration

Information Card and follow the instructions

on it to quickly register your purchase online.

Registering your purchase is the only way you

can be eligible to receive complimentary techni-

cal support and future upgrade offers. This is

one of the most important steps you can take as

a new user.

About This Guide

This guide assumes you have installed Pro Tools,

and that you have an understanding of its fea-

tures and operating conventions as explained in

the Pro Tools Reference Guide.

Conventions Used in This Guide

Digidesign guides use the following conven-

tions to indicate menu choices and key

commands:

Convention Action

File > Save Choose Save from the File

Control+N Hold down the Control key

and press the N key

Control-click Hold down the Control key

and click the mouse button

Right-click Click with the right mouse

button

Chapter 1: Introduction 3

Command|8 includes a Modifiers section that

provides the following modifier key equivalents:

The following symbols are used to highlight

important information:

About www.digidesign.com

The Digidesign website (www.digidesign.com) is

your best online source for information to help

you get the most out of your Pro Tools system.

The following are just a few of the services and

features available.

Product Registration Register your purchase

online. See the enclosed Digidesign Registration

Information Card for instructions.

Support and Downloads Contact Digidesign

Technical Support or Customer Service; down-

load software updates and the latest online

manuals; browse the Compatibility documents

for system requirements; search the online An-

swerbase; or join the worldwide Pro Tools com-

munity on the Digidesign User Conference.

Training and Education Study on your own using

courses available online or find out how you can

learn in a classroom setting at a certified

Pro Tools training center.

Products and Developers Learn about Digidesign

products; download demo software or learn

about our Development Partners and their plug-

ins, applications, and hardware.

News and Events Get the latest news from

Digidesign or sign up for a Pro Tools demo.

Pro Tools Accelerated Videos Watch the series of

free tutorial videos. Accelerated Videos are de-

signed to help you get up and running with

Pro Tools and its plug-ins.

To learn more about these and other resources

available from Digidesign, visit the Digidesign

website (www.digidesign.com).

Command|8 Modifier Modifier Key Equivalents

Windows Mac

SHIFT/ADD Shift Shift

OPT(ALT)/ALL Alt Option

a/(CTL) Control Command

CTL/CLUTCH Start Control

User Tips are helpful hints for getting the

most out of Command|8.

Important Notices include information that

could affect the performance of Command|8

hardware or Pro Tools session data.

Shortcuts show you useful keyboard or

mouse shortcuts.

Cross References point to related sections in

this guide and other Digidesign guides.

Command|8 Guide4

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