Transport

This view is only available on phones!

The transport screen is primarily about navigating through a DAW project timewise. It provides a full set of transport controls including jog wheel and allows for marker navigation and placement.
Also included on this screen is access to save and undo / redo functionality far as those are exposed by the DAW.

With Ableton Live this screen may also be convenient for launching clips and scenes in clip view: The jogwheel will scroll through scenes, the scrub button triggers the currently selected one and advances to the next. The navigation cross can be used for clip selection, with the zoom button in its center launching selected individual clips. You will also find an equivalent to Live's "Back to arrangement" button when the app's sequencer preference is set to Live.

Touching the extras icon in the top right corner brings up a floating control with eight function keys that can be freely mapped to functions of your choice in some DAWs, but have fixed assignments in others. These are effectively the F-keys in the topmost row of an MCU unit's master section.
With both alt and shift keys down these butttons send comands equivalent to the second master section row. In most DAWs these are used to navigate window or channel sets.





Known fixed mappings for function block buttons are given in more detail in the button reference below.


MIDI Machine Control

As of version 1.1 the transport screen can also send MIDI Machine Control (MMC) to the secondary MIDI output. This needs to be enabled in the app's setup and is disabled by default. MMC will optionally be sent in parallel with DAW control transport commands or alternatively (when the shift button is pressed). See the button reference below for what MMC command is sent from which button (not specifically mentioned where obvious, like for play, stop etc.).

Assignable Keys

On large phones (and smaller ones with a "long" screen, resp. on all devices in landscape mode) you will find four additional buttons at the bottom / upper left half of the screen that you can assign any DAW control key to. To do so touch the context menu button and select "Assign F-Keys", then touch one of the four buttons and select the wanted function in the upcoming list. Touch the context menu button again to exit assignment mode.




Button reference:

Control
Modifier
Cubase, Reason: Go to left locator.
Live: Home
Logic: Nudge backward
Pro Tools: Home
Sonar: Go to loop start
FL Studio: Move left (With button held down, the jog wheel can be used for moving multiple steps. Target depends on active window)
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 1. Klinke: Go to loop start
Studio One: previous marker
Samplitude: Home
SAWStudio: Home
Digital Performer: RTZ
Acid, Vegas: RTZ
Tracktion: Mark in
Bitwig: Overdub
MMC: Go to 00:00:00:00

Cubase: Set left locator
Logic: Set Drop region in
Pro Tools: Nudge left
FL Studio: Snap
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 5. Klinke: Go to 0.0.0.0
Samplitude: Previous object
Acid, Vegas: Go to region start
Tracktion: Nudge left

Cubase, Reason: Go to right locator.
Live: End
Logic: Nudge forward
Pro Tools: End
Sonar: Go to loop end
FL Studio: Move right (With button held down, the jog wheel can be used for moving multiple steps).
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 2. Klinke: Go to loop end
Studio One: next marker
Samplitude: End
SAWStudio: Go to session end
Acid, Vegas: Go to session end
Tracktion: Mark out
Bitwig: Click



Cubase: Set right locator
Logic: Set Drop region out
Pro Tools: Nudge right
FL Studio: Link channels
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 6. Klinke: Go to project end
Samplitude: Next object
Acid, Vegas: Go to region end
Tracktion: Nudge right

Cubase, Live, Bitwig: Punch in
Logic: Replace
Pro Tools: Region capture in
Sonar: Go to punch in point
FL Studio: Select in
Reason: Hold down and turn jog wheel to set left locator
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 3. Klinke: Set loop to previous region
Studio One, Samplitude, Tracktion: Punch mode
SAWStudio: Mark region in
Digital Performer: Set Punch in
Acid, Vegas: Mark In

Replaced by:
Cubase: "Motors" (silences motorfaders by switching them off. Not very useful with TouchDAW's faders).
Live, Bitwig: Punch out
Logic: Drop
Pro Tools: Region capture out
Sonar: Go to punch out point
FL Studio: Select out
Reason: Hold down and turn jog wheel to set right locator
Reaper: Standard - go to Marker 4. Klinke: Set loop to next region
Studio One: Metronome
Samplitude: Sync on/off
SAWStudio: Mark region out
Digital Performer: Set Punch out
Acid, Vegas: Mark Out
Tracktion: Snap

Replaced by:
Toggles arrange and mixer views
Sonar: Sends F1 & F2 keys alternatively. Assign views to those keys in Sonar
FL Studio: Steps through windows (Browser, Step Sequencer, Mixer, etc.)
Reaper: Klinke: change record mode.
Reason: Reset automation overwrite
Tracktion: Toggles Meter & Edit views
MMC: Sends MMC eject

Replaced by:


Cubase, Studio One: Opens and closes channel Editor
Logic: Click
Live: Back to arrangement
Pro Tools: Sets edit mode
Sonar: Fit project to window
FL Studio: Select
Reason: Click
Reaper: Click
Samplitude: Metronome
SAWStudio: Clear marked region
Digital Performer: Punch mode
Acid, Vegas: Create region
Tracktion: Switches navigation to edit mode
Bitwig: Groove
MMC: Send MMC reset command

Replaced by:
Brings up a dialog with sequencer dependent save, undo and redo options
Pro Tools: Saving needs to be confirmed. The button will start to blink after save command is issued. Repeat save operation to confirm.

Sets a marker at the current playback position
Samplitude: Brings up F1 to F8 keys which create new markers (or jump to an already existing one, shift to erase)

Go to previous marker
Pro Tools, Acid, Vegas: Steps through eight accessible memory locations. The DAWs use a fix assignment from command to marker ID, but do not report the active marker, so it may take a few presses until command and current marker ID match.
FL Studio: With button held down, the jog wheel can be used to go through markers.
SAWStudio: Opens locator window (use jog wheel to go to locators)
MMC: Go to general purpose locator 1 (external device needs to support pre-stored locators)

Go to next marker
Pro Tools, Acid, Vegas: Steps through eight accessible memory locations. The DAWs use a fix assignment from command to marker ID, but do not report the active marker, so it may take a few presses until command and current marker ID match.
FL Studio: With button held down, the jog wheel can be used to go through markers.
SAWStudio: Deletes selected locator
MMC: Go to general purpose locator 2 (external device needs to support pre-stored locators)

Pauses playback
Starts playback
Starts recording on record enabled channels. Live will also record automation data
MMC: Sends MMC record strobe in and out alternating

Toggles loop playback
FL Studio: switches between Song and Pattern mode
SAWStudio: Play/Rewind mode
MMC: Sends Play resume

Rewind
Fast forward
Changes Jogwheel to (audible) srcub mode.
Pro Tools: Press repeatedly to change between scrub and shuttle mode, resp. off.
Live, clip view: triggers next scene.
Tracktion: Click
Bitwig: Hold down and move jog wheel to change tempo
MMC: Sends MMC shuttle commands with speed according to amount of wheel rotation


Function block key assignments for Pro Tools:

F1 - Transport window
F2 - Memory locations
F3 - Session setup
F4 - Big time display
F5 - Automation window
F6 - Video window
F7 - MIDI event list
F8 - Beat detective

Shift / F1 - Steps through edit modes
Shift / F2 - Steps through edit tools
Shift / F3 - Online switch
Shift / F4 - Record preroll
Shift / F5 - Metronome
Shift / F6 - Count off
Shift / F7 - MIDI merge
Shift / F8 - Input monitor enable


Function block key assignments for FL Studio:

F1 - Cut
F2 - Copy
F3 - Paste
F4 - Insert
F5 - Delete
F6 - Item menu
F7 - undo
F8 - redo

Shift / Alt / F1 - Pattern up
Shift / Alt / F2 - Mixer up
Shift / Alt / F3 - Channel up
Shift / Alt / F4 - Tempo up
Shift / Alt / F5 - Pattern down
Shift / Alt / F6 - Mixer down
Shift / Alt / F7 - Channel down
Shift / Alt / F8 - Tempo down


Function block key assignments for Samplitude:

F1 to F8 - go to or create marker

Shift / F1 to F8 - delete marker


Function block key assignments for MMC:

F1 - F8 - Record enable / disable Tracks 1 - 8

Shift / F1 - F8 - Go to general purpose locators 1- 8. External device needs to supprt pre stored locators.


Function block key assignments for Acid & Vegas:

F1-F8 - Go to markers 1 - 8
Shift /F1-F8 - Go to markers 9 - 16

Shift / Alt / F1 - Add track
Shift / Alt / F2 - Add bus
Shift / Alt / F3 - Mixer
Shift / Alt / F4 - Video Preview
Shift / Alt / F5 - PlugIns
Shift / Alt / F6 - Bus track
Shift / Alt / F7 - Dock area
Shift / Alt / F8 - Track list