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Chapter 4 Mackie Control 75
Mackie Control fader bank buttons
Mackie Control Bank 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:
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Pressing the BANK RIGHT button shifts to channel strips 9 to 16.
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Pressing the BANK RIGHT button again shifts to channel strips 12 to 19.
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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 nd and are comfortable with.
Notes on using the Bank or Channel buttons
Hold down the OPTION button, then press the BANK or CHANNEL LEFT button to jump to the
rst 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 Pro 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.