Standard HUI vs. V-Control Pro

Track Colors

See your mix at a glance. V-Control Pro lights up your Select buttons with the actual Pro Tools track colors. No more hunting for the right channel—your control surface becomes a colorful roadmap of your entire session.

Track Browser

The Track Browser puts your entire Pro Tools session at your fingertips. Instead of endless banking and scrolling to hunt down tracks, you get a smart overview that lets you jump directly to any track in seconds.

Just press the Track button and the FaderPort becomes a session navigator. The displays show all your tracks by banks, with Select buttons glowing in their actual Pro Tools colors. Use the navigation knob to scroll through your session, spot the track you need by its color or name, and press its Select button—boom, you're there instantly.

Whether you're working on a 12-track demo or a 200-track film score, the Track Browser turns track navigation from a chore into a breeze. Your control surface finally works the way your brain does.

Memory Location Hot Keys

Now you can instantly filter your massive session to show just drums, or just VCAs, or or any set for your workflow. To set it up, just create and name Pro Tools memory location snapshots with names that match the hot key button names and those buttons magically become instant filter buttons.

For example, create a memory location called "VCA" that shows only your VCA tracks, and suddenly your VCA button becomes a one-press track filter. Hit it once to see just VCAs, hit it again to go back to your previous view. Same goes for AUDIO, VI, BUS, ALL, and MASTER buttons—they all become smart shortcuts to exactly the tracks you need.

Got even more specific needs? Hold Shift and you unlock INPUTS, MIDI, OUTPUTS, FX, and USER buttons too. Whether you're focusing on just the rhythm section, isolating effects returns, or showing everything at once, it's all just one button press away.

Location Browser

The Location Browser turns your FaderPort into a session timeline navigator. Press the Marker button and you get all your session memory locations displayed in the Faderport displays—making it dead simple to jump anywhere in your project.

Need to get to the bridge? The outro? That video scene? Just spin the navigation knob to browse through your markers, spot the one you want, and press a Select button. You're there instantly

Sends Editing

V-Control Pro turns send mixing into something you can actually feel and flow with. Hit the Sends button and watch every fader on your surface instantly become a send level control for buses A through E across all your tracks simultaneously.

The track displays clearly show which reverb, delay, or aux send you're controlling, with pre-fader sends highlighted so you know exactly what's happening. Need to mute a send? Just hit the Mute button. Want to flip between pre and post-fader? Shift+Select toggles it instantly.

The Pan/Param encoder handles send panning for stereo sends, and if you're working with stereo tracks, the Pan button lets you switch between controlling left and right channels independently. It's like having dedicated send controls for every single track, without the clutter or cost of a massive console.

Plug-In Editing

Without V-Control Pro, selecting and editing a plug-ins requires many button presses and page changes and is limited to inserts A-E, and lets you edit just four fader parameters and four button parameters. V-Control Pro makes it simple and fast to edit plug-ins on any insert A-J, eight faders parameters and eightbutton parameters. And with Faderport 16, plug-in editing operates in splpit mode where the left eight strips are fully function for volume, pan, and sends editing while the right eight strips edit plugins.

Fast Plug-In Navigation

Without V-Control Pro, quickly accessing any plug-in on any track is impossible. Just press Select to move to the track and press again to change to the next insert.

Show/Hide, Bypass, Compare Any Plug-In On A Track

Without V-Control Pro, plug-in control and bypass is limited to individual inserts A-E. With V-Control Pro you can access inserts A-J.

Bypass All PlugIns On A Track

Without V-Control Pro it is impossible to toggle bypass for all plugins on a track with one button press. With V-Control Pro, simply select a track and then use Shift + Bypass to toggle bypass for all plugins on the track. Fast and easy.

Pro Automation

Without V-Control Pro, the Faderport doesn't indicate track automation mode or status and doesn't take advantage of indication by color. With V-Control Pro, each track's Select button color indicates its auto mode and write status. And now  the dedicated Off, Read, Write, Touch, Latch, Trim buttons are color coded. Automate with confidence and precision without distracting brain context switching.

Automation Suspend

Without V-Control Pro, suspending automation from Faderport is not possible. Now use Shift + F8 to suspend.

Auto Write To Start/End/All

Without V-Control Pro, writing automation to start/end/all from Faderport is not available. Now use Shift + left arrow/right arrow/encoder push to write to start/end/all.

10-Bit, Accurate Fader

Without V-Control Pro, the the FaderPort sends 9-bit fader messages to Pro Tools. And the fader's scale marks do not match the dB value in Pro Tools. For example, if you move the fader to 0 dB on FaderPort, it is actually -1.0 dB in Pro Tools. -5 FaderPort / -8.5 Pro Tools. -10 FaderPort / -14.5 Pro Tools. V-Control Pro sends 10 bit fader messages to Pro Tools. And it accurately translates the FaderPort fader position so the scale marks match. Mix with confidence and precision.

All Solo Clear

Without V-Control Pro, the FaderPort indicates and clears solo for only the eight or sixteen tracks in the current bank it is assigned to. With V-Control Pro, it indicates and clears solo for the entire Pro Tools session.

Redo

Without V-Control Pro, you get Undo but Redo is not available. V-Control Pro makes Undo work.

Group Suspend

Without V-Conntrol Pro, suspending automation from Faderport is not possible. Now use the Link button.

Dialog Cancel / OK

When you add a memory location with FaderPort, Pro Tools presents a dialog. Without V-Control Pro, you must move your hand to the keyboard or mouse to select Cancel or OK. V-Control Pro detects Pro Tools dialogs and blinks the Prev and Next buttons. Press Previous to cancel or Next to OK the dialog. Very handy.

 

Track Displays

Without V-Control Pro the FaderPort displays 4-character track names and does not show numerical volume and pan. V-Control Pro displays 7-character track names, numerical volume and pan on all Faderport strips.

Volume and Pan Reset

Without V-Control Pro, you cannot use the FaderPort to reset volume and pan for a track. With V-Control Pro, press Shift and tap the fader to reset it to 0 dB. To reset the pan to center, press Shift and press Select.

Improved Zoom

Without V-Control Pro, it is impossible to adjust vertical zoom in the Edit window. V-Control Pro adds vertical zoom control with the wheel encoder. The Prev / Next buttons provide horizontal zoom.