Loupedeck CT with Adobe Audition

Before you start… 2

Setup and startup 3

WORKSPACES 4

WORKSPACE 1: Editing 5

WORKSPACE 2: Track states & Mixer 10

WORKSPACE 3: Workspaces 11

WORKSPACE 4: Windows 11

WORKSPACE 5: View 12

Loupedeck CT with Adobe AuditionBefore you start…

Before getting familiar with Loupedeck Creative Tool (referred to in this manual as “CT”) and all that it offers for Audition use, let’s go through some things that are important for your usage and ideal understanding of the device.

• Please read this manual as well as the User Guide on how to use the Loupedeck Configuration software to fully understand the depth and usage of the device and its software before fully getting into it to avoid potential confusion and misunderstanding.Remember your very first session with Audition? It probably felt like looking at the cockpit of a plane. The very first sessions with CT may feel similar, as there is a lot of functionality. Manual will clarify these things. • Learn how to use the Home View for convenient visual access to your workspaces and different modes (pressing the Home button twice will take you to Home View).• Most workspaces have several pages for touch pads, dials, and wheel, which you can find by swiping left/right and up/down. You will see the names of the pages on the CT Setup software.If you feel that a certain essential function is missing, it is likely that you will find it on some of the pages. Also please refer to the Loupedeck Configuration software search function to see if the function exists (e.g., tap on a touch pad on the CT Setup, and type the name of the function on the search field). • The workspaces that you will get by default have been created for your best user experience in our opinion, but you can – and should – freely customize most workspaces and the the placement of actions to best suit your needs and workflow. Having what matters to you where it matters and memorizing it will speed up working with CT. Customizing the profile is definitely “a thing” with CT!Think of the factory profile as a “serving suggestion”: it may work well for you, but feel free to make it yours. • While some actions are seen as words only, some use icons. If you are unsure of what action an icon is for, pressing and holding down on the icon shows the name of the action on the wheel.

• You can have several profiles. Use Loupedeck Configuration software to make the profile – or several, if you wish – perfect for you and save them (on the built-in CT storage, for example).• CT is not designed to eliminate all mouse usage. Moreover, with some functions, CT works best when it gets a little help from your mouse (e.g., quickly selecting clips with the mouse and then muting them with CT). With some actions, CT nicely takes the workload off the mouse, though – e.g., selecting a range, moving clips, etc. The keyboard mode (Fn + keyboard button) also offers a mouse pad on the CT wheel.

• The CT keyboard can come in pretty handy with some functions, as it always offers you arrow keys, Undo, and Save. Esc is performed with Fn + Enter, and it is useful for closing dialogs, deselecting a clip/range, etc.

• This manual does not present a full list of all actions available in order to keep it brief and readable. The user can freely browse the full list of actions with the configuration software. Many of the functions and actions you will see on the factory profile (e.g., split, copy, paste, etc.) will be self-explanatory to you as an Audition user, but this manual covers points relating to CT use that are best explained.

CONFIGURATION OF THE BOTTOM HALF BUTTONS. The bottom half buttons have been pre-mapped to work with the Fn button to cover some of the functions that an Audition user needs very often (you can customize these). Stop and Play can be triggered with Fn + C/D (the middle row arrows).Toggle Record and Toggle Record mode are operated with Fn + A/B, (the top row arrows).To toggle between Waveform and Multitrack views, press Fn + E (the bottom right key).Note that you could also assign a secondary function (with Fn) on the Save key.Using the CT Setup software, if you wish, you can replace all these with your own favorite functions that you use a lot (e.g., replace “Save” with “Save As”).

Setup and startup

Before CT can work with Audition, you need to activate it as a control surface in the MIDI setup section of Audition preferences: see picture. Prior to this, make sure you have run the installer.

When you use CT with Audition, first start the Loupedeck app, open its Setup window, and then start Audition.

WORKSPACES WORKSPACE 1: Editing

WORKSPACE 2: Track States & Mixer

WORKSPACE 3: Workspaces

WORKSPACE 4: Windows

WORKSPACE 5: View

ACCESSING WORKSPACES Access the workspaces directly using the dedicated buttons (listed above).If you double-tap the round home button, you will see a “home screen” that has links to workspaces. The order the workspaces are on the pads of the home screen reflects the order they are on the physical workspace buttons. These can be set by the user. If you are viewing a page of a workspace that is not its first one, the first tap of home button takes you to the first page for touch pads and dials of that workspace.You can have more workspaces than 8: you can have sub-workspaces that you access with the Fn key. This could be handy, for example, for creating a sub-workspace for your favorite editing functions under the main editing workspace.PROTIP: Technically, these buttons do not necessarily have to host workspaces only: they can also be used for other press actions. MANUAL LAYOUT The way this manual works for explaining the workspaces is that it describes the actions it offers (as opposed to presenting full lists of every action in every workspace). Most workspaces have several pages worth of actions. They are listed in the beginning of each section. Not all pages for wheels and dials are explained one by one or as a list either, as many of the actions actually combine functions on wheel/touchpad/dials.

WORKSPACE 1: Editing This workspace contains a variety of actions needed for editing and recording as well as some utilitarian functions. Make sure to swipe left/right and up/down to swipe through all the pages to find all the functionality that CT has to offer. Do take some time to explore and see what the pages have to offer, as memorizing what is where will speed up your workflow. Remember: you can customize a lot of the content as you wish.On pages, you can also have links to other pages of the currently selected workspace. Find page links under Page Links menu in the configuration software.See page 8 of Workspace 1 for an example.

Below is a list of the pages for touch pads, dials, and the wheel for workspace 1.

PADS WHEEL DIALS p 1: clip actions p 1: play/stop/rec wheel p 1: move playhead + zoom p 2: edit actions p 2: selection wheel p 2: nudge + move track + zoomp 3: cursor tools p 3: scroll wheel p 3: brush, in/out point, zoom freq p 4: clip nudge p 4: cursor wheel p 5: delete actions p 5: shuttle actions p 6: track tools p 6: marker wheel p 7: marker tools p 7: mouse tools p 8: page links p 8: multi-tool wheel

Moving the playhead on Multitrack viewThere are several ways to move the playhead on Multitrack view – there are many different rotation actions for this. • Zoom-dependent moves. The rotation action of the first wheel page of Workspace 1 moves the playhead, and the size of the movement “step” depends on the zoom state: when the view is zoomed in, movement gets finer, and when the view is zoomed out, the moves are bigger. This uses an action called Jog (which you can find in the Loupedeck configuration software and assign where it works better for you, if you wish). If you wish to move the playhead by one frame, for example, zoom in close enough, and moves will be one frame. • Shuttle rotation action moves the playhead using Audition’s shuttle actions, increasing or decreasing the play speed each time that a shuttle action is used. You can find this as the rotation action on the fourth wheel of this workspace. Shuttle commands are also available as press actions on that wheel.

Bigger playhead moves on Multitrack viewSee page 1 for dials on Workspace 1: it allows for even bigger playhead moves.Move Playhead Page moves the playhead by pages.

Move Playhead To Next/Previous stops at the start and end point of every clip as well as at every marker (adding markers as well as a dedicated marker wheel are explained later in this section).Move Playhead To Marker moves the playhead from a marker to another.

Selection wheel There is also a wheel that can be used to highlight a region.To highlight a region, rotate the wheel while holding Fn. If Fn is not held down, this wheel moves the playhead without creating a selection.This wheel also contains several press actions that are useful in conjunction with selecting clips and regions.To highlight a new region after one is already highlighted, just move the playhead out of the highlighted range with the wheel and rotate the wheel with Fn to make a new selection.

Adjust selection in/out points Adjusting selection in and out points can be done with the dial actions on dial page 3. In addition to these, there are press actions for Adjust In Point To Beginning/End/Left/Right and Adjust Out Point To Beginning/End/Left/Right via the configuration software.

ScrollingScrolling is on the second wheel. Its press actions are Scroll Page Left/Right; tapping these moves the view by pages. There are two scrolling rotation actions: Scroll and Scroll Page. The former scrolls the view by very small moves, and the latter by pages. The latter has been assigned to the wheel in the factory profile.

Select a track To select a track, use the Select Track dial on top right of dial page 1 (this, too, you can freely assign elsewhere).

Playing your project On the wheel, you will see a play/toggle push action. Playing always starts from the location of the playhead. There are separate play and stop actions as well as a play/stop toggle available via the configuration software, should you want to use them.

Recording The first wheel of workspace 1 offers both toggling the record mode (between the three states seen in the pic) as well as activating recording. These both can also be accessed by pressing Fn + A/B.

Selection actions On the factory profile, you will find Select All, Select All Clips In Selected Track, Select All Time and Select Current View Time actions for quicker selection for large ranges. However, there is a wide variety of specific selection actions available via the configuration software, so do a search for “select” for everything that is available (see pic).

Zooming CT offers several ways of zooming in Audition. Most zooming actions are already in the profile. Feel free to customize their locations.On dial page 1, you will see horizontal zooming and vertical zooming (track height) as rotation controls. As they are needed often, they are on the first page (they could be anywhere – even on the wheel).TIP: Pressing down on horizontal zooming resets zooming to a fully zoomed-out state. Zoom Selected Track is the press action of the top right dial of page 1 (Select Track) – even though it cannot be seen, because the text shows the rotation action name.Page 2 offers Zoom To Selection as a press action, and there, you will also find Zoom In At In Point and Zoom In At Out Point as press actions. There is also a Zoom Out Full action available. Deleting a highlighted range A quick way to delete the selected range and material is to use the trashcan icon (delete).There is also a dedicated Delete page on this workspace for more specific deletions.TIP: Clicking Keyboard + 7 (Mac) / Keyboard + 7/8 (PC) is a very quick way to delete what is selected. This always works regardless of the workspace you are in. Note that when you click on 7/8 while holding down the keyboard button, it acts as a modifier, and CT will not enter keyboard state.

Delete actionsThe fifth touch page presents various delete and discard actions.

Looping a region First highlight a region and then press the loop icon. It has been pre-assigned to the first wheel in this workspace (press action). Looping a clipFirst highlight a region and then press the loop icon. It is on touch pad page 1.

Working with markers This Workspace offers a whole touch pad page (seventh touch page) dedicated to marker actions. Different markers can be added, merged, and deleted. There is also an action for exporting marker ranges and inserting the selected range markers into a playlist. Toggling snap to markers can be activated, and there is a Rename Markers action available via the configuration software. TIP: Do a search for “marker” in the configuration software for both Press and Rotation actions to see everything that is available.

Moving between markers With CT, it is very convenient to use Markers as points in your song on Multitrack view and quickly move between them. For example, you can have locators on intro, bridge, drop, etc. and easily switch between the different sections. Moving between Markers is easy with Move Playhead To Marker rotation action.

There is a wheel dedicated to markers: as its rotation action, it moves between markers (you can also use the press actions as seen on the wheel), and adding cue markers and deleting the selected marker have been assigned as the press actions. For convenient deletion, just use the wheel to move to a desired marker and press the Delete Selected Markers to delete it.

Moving a clip There are different ways to move a clip. E.g., when a clip is selected, you can use Nudge and Nudge 5 controls (dial page 2) to move a clip by one frame or five frames, respectively.Also, when a cursor is placed on a clip’s header, you can use the Horizontal tool (see pic) to move it left and right (you can find it on the wheel, but it could be used on a dial, too). Just place the cursor on a clip and rotate the wheel once Horizontal is selected. This action emulates left mouseclick + dragging left/right.There are also Nudge Up/Down/Left/Right actions available (nudging up and down moves the clip to another track).

Changing clip length with the wheelThe same above-mentioned Horizontal mouse tool on the wheel can be used to edit clip length. First place the cursor on the clip edge, and then rotate the wheel or dial with Horizontal tool to set clip length. If clip stretching is activated, this can be used to stretch the clip (you will find the Toggle Clip Stretching “clock” icon on touch pad page 1). Adjusting automation pointsAutomation points can be easily moved horizontally and vertically with the Horizontal

and Vertical mouse tools: just place the cursor on the automation point and use the desired tool to move the point.

Renaming a clipA Rename action can be found via the configuration software.

Muting clips There is a mute action for muting the selected clips.

Moving a track vertically (sorting tracks) The top right dial of Dial page 2 is can be used to move the selected track up and down.Toggle Snapping General Toggle Snapping is on Workspace 5.Also, there are several specific Toggle Snap To actions available: Toggle Snap To Clips, Frames, Loops, Markers, Ruler, Ruler Fine, and Zero Crossings. Find those on touch pad page 6.

Cursor tools Find different cursor tools on touch pad page 3.The available tools are Move, Razor Selected Clips, Slip, Time Selection, Marquee, Lasso, Paintbrush and Healing Brush. There is also wheel in this workspace to demonstrate that you can have your most often accessed cursor tools on a wheel.

Shuttle Left/Right Shuttle Left/Right actions to control playback speed as well as shuttle stop are available. Find them in a wheel on this workspace.

Multi-tool wheelThe last wheel of this workspace is a multi-tool wheel. It contains lots of rotation-based actions such as scrolling, zooming etc. in one list. You choose the tool by swiping up and down and rotate the wheel to do the selected action. This can be a very helpful wheel type, as you can have your most-used actions in one list. The wheel in this workspace probably has too many actions in one list, but it is there to hopefully trigger some usage thoughts and show you the power it can have. Familiarize yourself with it and customize it to your liking!

Brush size and opacity There are tools for changing brush size and opacity. These are available as both press and rotation actions.

The factory profile location for the press actions for brush is on touch pad page 3. The rotation actions are on dial page 4.

Zoom frequency Frequency zoom for Waveform view is available as a rotation control (on factory profile, you can find it on dial page 4).

Mouse Pad wheel toolIf you wish to use CT instead of your mouse to move the cursor around and select clips etc., there is a mouse pad wheel tool that does just that.Enter mouse mode by pressing Fn + keyboard button. Pressing Fn + keyboard again leaves mouse mode.

WORKSPACE 2: Track states & Mixer

PADS WHEEL DIALS p 1: track 1-3 mute/solo/arm p 1: master arm/mute/level p 1: track 1-6 level p 2: track 4-6 mute/solo/arm p 3: master mute/solo/arm/etc. This workspace presents mixing functions as well as actions for changing track states.

Currently, the CT software has these actions for seven tracks and the master track. The first two touch pad pages have the following actions for tracks 1–6 on them: track mute, track solo, track arm, and track monitor input (these actions are also available for track 7 via the configuration software). There are also actions to change polarity and pre-render state of tracks (not in the factory profile).

You will also see track volume level dials for tracks 1–6. Note that pressing down on those dials resets the track levels to 0. The third touch pad page presents the following actions for the master track: mute, solo, arm, monitor input, polarity and pre-render.

The wheel offers master arm and master mute. Master level is controlled by rotating the wheel.

WORKSPACE 3: Workspaces

PADS WHEEL DIALS p 1: Audition workspaces - -

This is a collection of Audition workspaces. Using the touch actions on the pads, you can switch between them (just like you would from Window->Workspace menu in Audition).There is also wheel to edit, reset, and save a workspace as well create a new one.

WORKSPACE 4: Windows

PADS WHEEL DIALS p 1: windows page 1 - - p 2: windows page 2

In this Workspace, you will find actions that show and hide many of the windows that are dedicated to specific tasks or information. Most of these actions work as toggle actions: first tap shows the window and another tap hides it. Many of these actions are found under Window menu in Audition. In the Loupedeck configuration software, these are under Actions -> Window folder.Note that not all actions from that folder have been added to the default profile. Customize this workspace based on what Audition windows you need to toggle often.

There is also wheel to demonstrate that you can have your most often accessed Audition windows on a wheel.

WORKSPACE 5: View PADS WHEEL DIALS p 1: view page 1 - -

Loupedeck CT offers an abundance of different view-related functions, many of which work as toggle actions. Some of them are placed in this workspace.Here you have, for example, actions to show and hide a files panel, markers panel, metadata panel, editor controls, pitch display, etc.As there are simply so many functions for View, it is highly advisable to take a look at everything that the configuration software has to offer under Actions->View menu and customize this workspace based on your own needs.There is also wheel to demonstrate that you can have your most often accessed view actions on a wheel.