AlphaTrack Quote

“Excellent! Worked straight out of the box as things should. Unlike other products I’ve bought, the AlphaTrack has been a pleasure to install and use.”

Stephen Lloyd

Quick Facts

  • Optimized for fast, high-quality DAW mixing and editing in a small footprint
  • Intuitive, innovative, and powerful controls in an attractive package
  • 100mm touch-sensitive, high-resolution (true 10-bit positions) motorized fader
  • Three touch-sensitive encoders ... context-specific feedback appears on the 32-character backlit display
  • Innovative touch-sensitive jog and shuttle strip for fast timeline control
  • 22 buttons and 21 LED's for track-specific and global functions
  • Works with Pro Tools®, Sonar™(4+), Cubase®(3.02+), Reason™(3.01+), Digital Performer®(5+), Nuendo®(3.02+), Final Cut Pro™, Soundtrack Pro™, REAPER™, and other DAW software applications
  • Works on Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X computers (Mac OS 10.3.9 or later), including Intel Macs
  • Footswitch input on back panel
  • No external power adapter required ... single USB connection and small size make it great for laptops!
Computer Music Performance Award iXBT Original Design Award 2008 Remix Technology Award 2008 Editors Choice Award

AlphaTrack and Cakewalk’s Guitar Tracks Pro

AlphaTrack makes a great companion for Guitar Tracks Pro v3+. Cakewalk designed Guitar Tracks Pro to be an affordable and easy to use, yet fully featured, audio recording system for guitar players and musicians of all types. Together they make an unbeatable combination for budding home studios and professional musicians alike.

Full ‘Native Mode’ support of AlphaTrack in Guitar Tracks Pro is accomplished through a special control surface file that is included in the driver installer. Checking the box for SONAR support during step 3 of the Windows driver installation automatically places the necessary control surface file into the Cakewalk folder for use with Guitar Tracks Pro. For full details on installing AlphaTrack on your PC check out our AlphaTrack Users Guide.

Guitar Tracks Pro Control Setup

Once the drivers are installed and AlphaTrack configured for ‘Native Mode’, open Guitar Tracks Pro and enable the AlphaTrack under MIDI options, and then as a Control Surface. That’s all there is to it.

There are 2 .pdf documents created specifically for Guitar Tracks Pro users available from the FDG website. The first is Guitar Tracks Pro and AlphaTrack. This document contains detailed instructions for configuring the AlphaTrack for use with Guitar Tracks Pro. Information on how to use some of AlphaTrack’s less-obvious features, as well as a reference chart listing the default controls for Guitar Tracks Pro are found in this useful document.

The second file, Guitar Tracks Pro Layout, is a single page picture of the AlphaTrack with overlaid text also summarizing the Guitar Tracks Pro feature set. It may be helpful to print this file and have it handy as a quick reference guide.

We encourage visitors to our user forums to post their comments and questions. Other users often have useful ideas and experiences to share, and we monitor the posts to provide additional input.

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