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Mackie Control: BANK LEFT and BANK RIGHT Buttons
The Mackie Control provides eight sets of channel strip controls, allowing you to edit
eight corresponding channels. The BANK LEFT and BANK RIGHT buttons let you move
between “banks” of eight channel strips. For 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 to 1–8 with one more button press.
If you are using a control surface group, the BANK LEFT and BANK RIGHT buttons shift
the active channel strips by the total number of channels in the control surface group.
For 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.
The BANK buttons always change channel strips in groups of eight, unless the last channel
strips do not make a complete group of eight. For 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.
Notes on Using the FADER BANKS 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 jumps to the last set of channel strips in the project. For example, if your
project has 64 channel strips, pressing BANK or CHANNEL LEFT jumps to channel strips
1 through 8, and pressing BANK or CHANNEL RIGHT jumps to channel strips 57 through
64.
For views where one type of channel strip is displayed (such as audio, instruments, or
busses), Logic Express remembers the last group of eight channel strips shown in the
view, and returns to it when you switch back from another view. For example, if you
start in a view with audio channel strips 4 through 11 visible, switch to an instruments
view, scroll to instruments 6 through 13, and then switch back to the audio channel
view, you will return to audio channel strips 4 through 11 (not 6 through 13). Switching
to the Instrument Channel view displays instruments 6 through 13.
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