simplify your workflow even more and take control of tracktion waveform with this fairly affordable
little daw controller right here this is the korg nanokontrol2 and in this video i'm going to show
you how to set this up in tracktion waveform it's really easy to do i've included a link
to this down in the description case you want to get any more information on it and
the latest pricing i've also included a link to a review video that i did of it but right now let's
jump in and get this thing set up in waveform alright so if you have yours connected already
disconnect it and then what you want to do is hold down
set and the record button at the same time and plug in the usb cable
and this puts the nanoKontrol 2 into a mode that is usable in waveform so once you have that open
like that we can open up tracktion waveform and you want to go into your settings then go down to midi
devices and you'll see nanokontrol here in an output and input so we want to just click here
it's enabled and click there so you want input and output enabled and now what we want to do is go to
control surfaces and then in control surfaces you want to go to mackie control universal and then
click on that then down in the bottom section here you want to go to input device and you'll
select nanokontrol2 and then you go to output device nanokontrol 2. you also want to make sure
that the one button record is clicked and then you can also set this color here if you really want to
and this just sort of changes the color that's going to go around the tracks that are being
controlled i'll show you that in a second here so this is all set up let's go into a project
and what i'm going to do is open up an existing project for now so you can see around the tracks
there's this green angle thing here and that's the color that i was talking about back in the
settings and if we changed it to say pink you can see it's now pink in there so put it to whatever
color you like it doesn't really matter but it does show you which tracks are being controlled
because if you have a lot more than eight tracks which this controls let's add eight more tracks
so you can see it only controls this section of tracks now if we want to control some
more tracks down here we would just press the track arrow to the right and you can
see now it's controlling the next section of tracks and then we can go back just like that
and another thing you'll notice is if we open this up and say this track was soloed it would actually
show up as soloed on the nanokontrol so you can see the light is on there for solo'd on track one
and if we press it on here turns it on and off same with mute and if we wanted to arm
this for recording you can see it's armed for recording and of course your play button works
stop button and if you wanted to go forward you could use these forward and backwards
arrows here and you can also use this markers button here and i think if we had some markers
in there it would jump between the markers but we don't have any the set button doesn't work to set
markers in waveform now another thing to note is this doesn't have motorized faders so
if you were loading this into an existing project and you can see here on track two
the volume is lowered already we'll just touch that so you can see here that the volume of this
track is at minus 11.68 and the fader is down at the bottom here and if i were to touch this
fader no matter where it is it's going to adjust the volume so it matches the fader
but in terms of simplifying your workflow when i record guitar i like to have this towards the
end of my desk because i like to stand up while i play and i can easily arm a track for recording
then press record so we'll do that right now i don't have anything to record in but i'll just
set this so it's recording input 1 we'll say all right and we'll just arm track 6 for recording
and i'll press record now
and you can see it started to record and you can also see we have controls for pan at the top here
so if i wanted to control the pan for this track if i just turn it a little bit you can see we're
adjusting the pan and you can set this up to control other things as well but right now this
is set up as a control surface as you can see if you use this as a control surface like i do
you can change settings on multiple tracks at the same time without needing to use your mouse
and i like the transport buttons because i like to stand when i record and typically
standing back from the computer so this allows me to have like a remote control
for my daw which is really nice now if you want to check out even more tracktion waveform tutorials
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