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Setting Up Your Mackie Control in Logic Express
When you open Logic Express, it automatically detects any powered Mackie Control unit
that is connected to your system. You can use the Mackie Control immediately—with
the default settings—or you can customize its settings, as described in Basic Control
Surface Setup, and Customizing Controller Assignments.
Once set up, you can use the Mackie Control to control Logic Express in the following
ways, or perhaps take an alternate approach that best meets your working preferences.
• With your project open in the Arrange window, select the channel strips you want to
control by pressing the Fader Bank buttons on the Mackie Control.
See Mackie Control: Fader Bank Zone for more information.
• Select the parameters you want to edit, and whether you want to edit multiple channels
(Mixer view) or a single channel (Channel view), using the Assignment buttons.
See Mackie Control: Assignment Zone for more information.
• Start playback, and move the playhead to the position where you want to work, using
the Mackie Control transport buttons and Jog Wheel.
See Mackie Control: Transport Zone and Mackie Control: Jog/Scrub Wheel Zone for
more information.
• Edit the project with the channel strip controls.
See Mackie Control: Channel Strip Controls for more information.
Mackie Control: Display Zone
The display zone, located along the top of the Mackie Control, features four displays. Each
shows different information:
• Main Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
• Assignment display
• Time display
• Solo LED
Mackie Control: Main Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
The main LCD is divided into eight sections (or columns), each with two lines of text. Each
section displays information for the channel strip controls directly below it. Depending
on the parameters you are editing and whether Mixer view or Channel view is active, the
information displayed on the main LCD changes. In general, the upper row of each section
displays the (abbreviated) track (or channel) name, and the lower row displays the
(abbreviated) parameter name and its value.
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