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82 Chapter 3 Mackie Control
Fader Bank Zone
This Mackie Control zone contains two sets of left and right buttons—for switching
between individual or grouped channels—as well as the FLIP and GLOBAL VIEW
buttons.
Bank Left and Right Buttons
The Mackie Control provides 8 sets of channel strip controls—allowing you to edit
eight corresponding channels. The Bank Left and Right buttons enable you to move/
switch between “banks” of eight channel strips. As an example, if you are editing
channel strips 1–8, pressing the Bank Right button moves to channel strips 9–16.
Pressing Bank Right again moves to channel strips 17–24. Pressing Bank Left returns to
channel strips 9-16, then 1–8 with a further button press.
If you are using a control surface group, the Bank Left and Right buttons shift the active
channel strips by the total number of channels in the control surface group. As an
example; if you have a Mackie Control and two Mackie Control XT units, the view shifts
by 24 channels—the total number of channels in the control surface group.
Use of the Bank buttons always changes channel strips in groups of eight, unless the
last-most channel strips do not make a complete group of eight. To provide an
example; if a project has 19 channel strips, and the Mackie Control is controlling
channel strips 1 to 8:
 Pressing the Bank Right button shifts to channel strips 9 to 16.
 Pressing the Bank Right button again shifts to channel strips 12 to 19
 Pressing the Bank Left button shifts back to channel strips 9 to 16, not 4 to 11.
This way, you always revert to the channel strips you expect to find, and are
comfortable with.
Channel Left and Right Buttons
Using the Channel Left and Right buttons, you can move up or down by a single
channel strip. Pressing the Channel Right button shifts (the active channel strips) up by
a single channel strip, while pressing Channel Left shifts down by a single channel strip.
As an example: if viewing channel strips 1 to 8, pressing Channel Right will display
channel strips 2 to 9.
Notes on Using the Fader Bank Buttons
When holding down the OPTION button, pressing the BANK or CHANNEL Left button
jumps to the first set of channel strips in the project. Pressing the BANK or CHANNEL
Right button (while holding OPTION) jumps to the last set of channel strips in the
project. To provide you with an example; if your project has 64 channel strips, pressing
OPTION-BANK or CHANNEL left jumps to channel strips 1 through 8, and pressing
OPTION-BANK or CHANNEL Right jumps to channel strips 57 through 64.