Understanding Control Surface View Groups

View Groups can be used to bind the content of a specific view (objects) to the Binding Group content. You could, for example, map the objects of the Mixing Desk to a Control Surface.

A View Group contains bindings that are associated with objects of a view, identified by their index in the view.

Here are the views supporting View Groups and how they assign the indexes:

Mixing Desk: one index per vertical strip.
List View, Query Editor, Reference View, Master-Mixer Console: one index per row.
Property Editor, Effect Editor, Source Editor, Modulator Editor: index 1 only, for the current object.
Soundcaster: one index per module.

To create a View Group:

In Control Surface Bindings view, click the View Groups folder
Click the Add Group button.
Name your group.
Press OK.
Create bindings in the group using the Add & Learn Binding button.

For more information, refer to Creating Control Surface Bindings.

Here is an example of a Control Surface View Group that can be used inside the Mixing Desk, List View or Soundcaster:

Mixing View Group:
- Binding: Property:Voice Volume - Index:1 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 0
- Binding: Property:Voice Volume - Index:2 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 1
- Binding: Property:Voice Volume - Index:3 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 2
- Binding: Property:Voice Volume - Index:4 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 3
- Binding: Command:Solo - Index:1 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 32
- Binding: Command:Solo - Index:2 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 33
- Binding: Command:Solo - Index:3 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 34
- Binding: Command:Solo - Index:4 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 35
- Binding: Command:Mute - Index:1 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 64
- Binding: Command:Mute - Index:2 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 65
- Binding: Command:Mute - Index:3 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 66
- Binding: Command:Mute - Index:4 - Key:MyController Ch.1 CC 67

This View Group will map:

4 hardware sliders to Voice Volume of 4 objects.
4 hardware buttons to Solo of 4 objects.
4 hardware buttons to Mute of 4 objects.

To associate a View Group with the Mixing Desk:

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info	You must have an active Control Surface Session, and at least one view group created for these steps.

From the View menu, open the Mixing Desk view (Ctrl+Shift+M).
Click the [>>] button at the upper right corner of the Mixing Desk, on the title-bar.
From the selector menu, select the View Group to use.

The View Group is loaded.

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info	View groups loaded in views are also shown in the Wwise toolbar. They can be activated and deactivated from the toolbar.

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