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Mackie Control: SELECT Button
Pressing the SELECT button chooses (activates) the channel for channel-based editing or
assignment commands. Each SELECT button features a green LED which is lit when the
channel is selected.
Holding down the SHIFT button while pressing a channel’s SELECT button sets the channel
volume to unity level (0 dB).
Note: While holding down the SHIFT button, the SELECT button LED indicates if the
channel volume is set to 0 dB.
Holding down the OPTION button while pressing the SELECT button of any channel
creates a new track—assigned to the same channel strip as the selected track—and
switches to Arrange view.
Holding down the SHIFT and OPTION buttons while pressing a channel’s SELECT button
creates a new track with the next channel strip (the one following the selected track),
and switches to Arrange view.
Mackie Control: Touch-Sensitive Motorized Faders
The motorized fader of each channel strip is generally used to control the channel level,
just like a volume fader on a mixing console. You can, however, also assign the fader to
control other parameters by using “Flip” mode.
Flip mode is activated by pressing the FLIP button, just above the MASTER fader. When
Flip mode is activated, you can control the parameter which is currently assigned to the
channel’s V-Pot with the fader. This allows more precise control of pans, aux returns, MIDI
track parameters, EQs, effects, software instrument, or other channel parameters.
You can switch between channels being controlled with the eight faders, by pressing
one of the CHANNEL or FADER BANK buttons. See Mackie Control: CHANNEL LEFT and
CHANNEL RIGHT Buttons and Mackie Control: BANK LEFT and BANK RIGHT Buttons.
The behavior of the faders changes in different modes, as outlined below:
• In Flip mode: Duplicates or swaps parameters with the V-Pot on the same channel.
• In EQ Frequency/Gain view: Adjusts the gain of the selected EQ band.
• In Send Destination/Level Mixer view: Adjusts the send level of the selected send.
• In Send Destination/Level Channel view: Adjusts the send level of the send on the selected
channel strip.
Mackie Control: Master Fader
The Master fader controls the level of the primary master channel strip in the Logic Express
Mixer. This raises or lowers the level of all output channel strips, without changing their
relative levels.
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