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9Control Surfaces Support Guide
Mackie Control displays
Overview of Mackie Control displays in Logic Pro
The displays are located along the top of the Mackie Control. Each shows different
information:
Displays
• Main Liquid Crystal Display (LCD): The main LCD is divided into eight columns, each
with two lines of text. Each column displays information for the channel strip controls
directly below it. The information displayed changes when you edit different parameters
and when Mixer view or Channel view is active. In general, the upper row of each
column displays the abbreviated track (or channel) name, and the lower row displays
the abbreviated parameter name and its value.
In some modes, a long parameter name (or other text) appears briefly onscreen while
you are moving the corresponding control. You can set the display and duration of
long parameter names in Control Surfaces preferences. For information on setting
preferences, see the Logic Pro User Guide.
Note: On the LCD, 8-bit ASCII characters such as curly quotes and umlauts are replaced
with the best-possible 7-bit ASCII equivalent.
• Assignment display: The Assignment display (also referred to as the mode display), to
the right of the main LCD, shows a two-digit abbreviation for the current assignment
state. A period (.) appears at the bottom-right corner of the display when Channel view
is active.
• Time display: The Time display, to the right of the Assignment display, shows the current
playhead position, either in musical time divisions (BEATS) or in SMPTE timecode
format (SMPTE). A small LED to the left of the display indicates the current display
format.
• When the format is set to Beats, the four segments of the Time display show the
current playhead position as bars, beats, beat subdivisions, and ticks.
• When the format is set to SMPTE, the four segments of the Time display show the
current playhead position as hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.
Press the SMPTE/BEATS button to switch between formats. You can also set the default
format with the Clock Display parameter in the Control Surfaces Setup window. See the
Logic Pro User Guide.
• Solo LED: The Solo LED (Rude Solo on the Mackie Control) is lit when a channel strip is
set to solo or when Solo mode is turned on. It is a helpful reminder in situations where
you have soloed a channel strip, then switched the fader bank, resulting in the Solo LED
of the soloed channel strip being hidden on the control surface.