Hi I'm Harry from Audient and in this video I'm going to show you how to
use ScrollControl, a really cool new feature
on our high-performance audio interface iD14.
So ScrollControl turns iD14's volume encoder into a virtual scroll wheel.
This lets you change plug-in parameters as well as other features in your DAW session.
This is great for giving you hands-on control like you're using a piece of hardware
and lets you get really creative with automation and other features in your mix
So now I'm going to show you a couple of examples of how you can
use ScrollControl to get some really creative results.
Here is a track i want to add a bit of automation to.
I have a build-up section over here just before everything kicks in
and i want to add a filter sweep to
the string section just before everything comes in.
So first of all i'm going to put iD14 into ScrollControl mode by pressing the iD button.
Then i'm going to make sure that I can write the automation on the track.
So in logic i open up automation
and then I put touch mode on
now this means that any parameter that gets changed will get written into automation.
Now the next thing to do is to open up my filter
and at the moment for this I'm going to change the cutoff.
So all I've got to do is hold my mouse over the cutoff
and then when i turn the scroll wheel it will write the automation.
So if we set it up to go, hold my mouse over and play...
Now if we open automation you can see here
we have
a bit going on there.
But actually I want it to be a bit more of a filter sweep than that so i can go back
and just as easily re-record over my automation.
So now i'm going to show you a similar thing to what we just did using a filter sweep
but instead of using a plug-in, I'm going to use the Logic ES2 synth.
So if we open up.
This is the parameter we want to change.
Lets again first make sure that we're in touch mode,
make sure playback to the beginning, hover over and let's go...
There we go, you can see that's more than just a straight line drawn with the mouse
and it took hardly any time at all to get a really nice sounding shape.
So this is a really useful technique
and it's really easy to do with ScrollControl.
Now I'm going to show you how you can use ScrollControl
to add a performance element to your sounds.
So here i have a baseline with Massive by Native Instruments
and we're going to use ScrollControl to change some of these macro controls
while we're going along.
If I want to change another one, I just move across to another control
The great thing about having this hands-on control it really lets you feel
the music gives you the option to add a human performance element to your recordings.
Now I'm going to show you a typical mixing technique
where we ride the level of the vocals.
Using ScrollControl in this way really lets you feel the
dynamic of the vocals and enables you to quickly
achieve the results you want in a more organic way.
So here we have a sample from Emily Denton
Let's try automating that now...
So we've done that to the vocals,
why not try adding a bit of delay in there now...
ScrollControl is compatible with any DAW plugin which is scroll wheel enabled.
So for example right now we're in Pro Tools and we can have a play with
some of the plugins in here.
Here we have just a basic EQ and we can
range through all the frequencies and find troublesome ones and then notch them out
which is a very cool thing you can do.
We also have waves plugins so here we have H-Delay.
You can alter the feedback or any other settings on that another
Another really great thing you can do is scroll through your Twitter feed or iTunes library.
It just goes to show how versatile ScrollControl really is!
I've only been able to show you a few things with iD14's ScrollControl but there are
endless possibilities to try out with all the different scroll wheel enabled
elements in your DAWs and plugins
So I hope this has given you an idea of some
really cool ways that you can use iD14's ScrollControl feature.
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