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1141Logic Pro User Guide
Control surface use tips in Logic Pro
You may find that using control surfaces changes the way you use Logic Pro. Slight
changes to your working methods can help you use control surfaces more effectively. The
following hints may streamline your control surface workflow.
Customize your templates
Set up screensets 1–7 as your most frequently used screensets. You can access
these directly on some control surfaces. On a MackieControl, for example, you
can access them with function keys F1 to F7, while function key 8 (F8) closes the
topmost window.
Assign a full-screen Tracks window, with track automation view set to On (for all
tracks), as one of your screensets.
Assign a full-screen Mixer window as another screenset.
Make use of markers
Markers allow you to quickly navigate from location to location in a project. Most control
surfaces feature a number of marker shortcuts which is an effective way to move
between positions in your projects.
Markers are also useful for creating or selecting cycle areas and a number of other
tasks, such as punch and replace recording.
If you tend to follow a particular song structure or like to work with a certain number
of bars (4, 8, 16 bars, and so on) for verse and chorus sections, set up a number of
markers at suitable locations in your project templates.
Control surfaces supported by Logic Pro
The table shows control surfaces directly supported by Logic Pro. The table covers only
the control surface use of devices with Logic Pro, not any other facilities such as audio
input or output. The specific control surface support for each of these devices can be
found in the Logic Pro Control Surfaces Support documentation.
Directly supported control surfaces communicate with Logic Pro via special plug-in files
located in the /Contents/MIDI Device Plug-ins subfolder of the Logic Pro application
bundle. To view the bundle contents, Control-click the Logic Pro application icon, and
choose Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu. Logic Pro also checks for control
surface plug-ins installed in the ~/Library/Application Support/MIDI Device Plug-ins and ~/
Library/Application Support/MIDI Device Plug-ins folders.
When new control surface plug-ins are supplied directly by the device manufacturer, place
them in the folders described above or as advised in the documentation supplied with the
plug-in.
Note: Many supported devices provide an emulation mode for the Mackie Control Universal
(MCU) or HUI protocol. In essence, Logic Pro recognizes the device as an MCU or HUI.
In some cases, the device may automatically switch to DAW controller mode or you may
need to manually switch it to MCU or HUI mode. See the support documentation of your
controller for details on use of emulated control modes.