Adding devices to a Combi

Creating new devices in a Combi

To add devices to a Combi, you can drag and drop them from the device palette in the Browser as usual.

If you want to add devices using the Create menu or by double clicking in the device palette, you need to make the Combinator the target device in one of the following ways:

Click in the empty area at the bottom of the open device container so that the red insertion line is shown:

If you create a device with the insertion line showing, the new device will appear at the bottom of the Combi container.

If the Combi already has devices in it, select a device in the Combi (but not the Combinator device itself).

When you add a device from the Create menu it will appear below the selected device (just like in the rack).

No sequencer tracks will be automatically created for devices added to a Combi.

About auto-routing

The auto-routing of devices in a Combi is similar to devices in the rack:

•	If a device in a Combi is selected, the new created device will appear below the selected device according to standard rules.

•	If an effect is selected and you create a new effect device, these will be connected serially.

•	If an instrument device is selected and you create an effect it will be connected as an insert effect to the instrument device.

•	If a mixer is selected and you create an effect it will be connected as a mixer send effect.

•	If an instrument device is selected and you create another instrument device it will be added below the selected device and connected to the first available Combinator Mixer input channel.

•	If you hold down [Shift] and create a new device, no auto-routing will take place.

•	If you hold down [Option] (Mac) or [Alt] (Windows) and create a new device, a sequencer track will be created for the device.

If you add a device to an empty Combi, its output(s) will be auto-routed to the first available “From Devices” connector(s) of the Combinator Mixer. For effect devices, the input will also auto-route to the “To Devices” connectors.

Adding existing devices to the Combi from the rack

You can move devices in the rack that are currently outside the Combi into the Combinator holder. This works as follows:

1.	If you want to add more than one device at the same time, [Ctrl]-select (Win) or [Shift]-select (Mac) the devices.

2.	Click on the panel area of a device.

You can click anywhere outside the actual parameters and displays.

3.	Drag the device(s) into the Combinator.

A thick orange vertical line indicates where the device(s) will be positioned. Note that the orange line can be to the left of a device (indicating that the moved device will be inserted before the other device) or to the right of a device (indicating that the moved device will be inserted after the other device). You can also add devices to the empty space at the bottom of the Combi holder.

•	No auto-routing will take place.

The existing connections to the rack will be kept, so there may be external routing connections (see “About External Routing”). If there are, “External Routing” will be shown the Combinator name display (and on the back of the Combinator a LED indicator will be lit).

•	If you drag devices into the Combi with [Shift] pressed, the devices will be disconnected from the rack and auto-routed according to the insert position.

The routing between dragged devices will be kept. If it isn’t possible to auto-route a dragged device (e.g. if there are no free From Devices inputs on the Combinator Mixer), the device will become unconnected.

•	If you drag devices into the Combi with [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) pressed, the devices will be copied. No auto-routing takes place.

Using [Shift] at the same time will attempt to auto-route according to the same rules as described above.

Combining two Combis

•	If you select two Combinators in the rack and then select “Combine” from the Edit/context menu the lower Combi will be uncombined and the devices added to the upper Combi in the rack when combining.

Existing routing will be unchanged.