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Control surfaces preferences
Open Control Surfaces preferences
Settings that aect the onscreen appearance and performance of control surfaces are changed
in the Control Surfaces preferences window. There are two preferences tabs: General Control
Surfaces preferences and Help Tags preferences.
Important: If you want to make changes to the default assignments of control surfaces, you
need to use the Controller Assignments window Easy view or Expert view. See Controller
assignments overview. Easy view is available only when you click the Show Advanced Tools
checkbox in the Advanced Logic Pro preferences. Expert view is available only when you click
the Show Advanced Tools checkbox and the Control Surfaces checkbox in the Advanced Logic
Pro preferences.
Open the Control Surfaces preferences window
m Choose Logic Pro > Control Surfaces > Preferences (or use the Open Control Surfaces Preferences
key command).
Click the General or Help Tags tab to access the associated preferences.
Temporarily disable your control surfaces
m Choose Logic Pro > Control Surfaces > Bypass all Control Surfaces.
This command is useful for silencing motorized control surface faders when recording in
the same room. It is also handy when troubleshooting MIDI data errors or for reducing MIDI
bandwidth requirements.
General Control Surfaces preferences
General Control Surfaces preferences include resolution of relative controls, maximum MIDI
bandwidth, and other functions.
General preferences
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Bypass All while in background checkbox: Turn on to allow your control surface to be shared
with other applications, when Logic Pro is not the active program.
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Resolution of Relative Controls slider: Drag to set the resolution of controls that change values
in a relative manner. The default resolution is 128 steps. Choose a higher resolution value to
divide the value range into ner increments.