User guide

MC Pro User Guide86
Understanding Banking & Surface Mapping
Layers and Banking
Banking (and nudging) the surface in HUI mode behaves differently than standard EUCON surface banking. In standard EUCON
applications, all tracks are directly available, and banking simply slides the surface left/right thus exposing other tracks on the sur-
face.
In HUI mode, however, EUCON sees only the HUI layer. Standard surface banking would simply move the location of the HUI
tracks on the surface, and would not expose other tracks in Pro Tools. To do that, you must HUI Bank. Current Bank and Nudge
buttons from the EUCON surfaces has been set to provide HUI-Banking in order to simplify this.
In the illustration above, two HUI modules have been assigned in Pro Tools. By default, Pro Tools maps channels 1- 16 to the 16
available HUI strips. These HUI strips are then seen by the EUCON surface and are mapped respectively to surface strips 1-16.
Pressing BANK (or Nudge) from the surface, will move the HUI layer left or right. Banking will move the HUI layer by the number
of HUI banks assigned: in this case two (16 tracks) resulting in Pro Tools channels 17 - 32 being mapped to the HUI layer and thus
updating the data sent to the surface.
In HUI mode, Surface Banking is disabled. This means you cannot move the surface mapping of HUI strips using Bank or Nudge
as you would in standard EUCON applications.
HUI Nudge Wheel Mode
The HUI Nudge wheel mode lets you scroll the HUI banks through the Pro Tools mixer quickly using the MC Jogwheel.
The Nudge command is located in the Left Edit section of EUCON commands. It is also pre-programmed in the default AppSet for
Pro Tools in the Left Edit section, bank 1.
Home/End
The HOME key in HUI also behaves differently than the standard EUCON surface command. EUCON applications provide Surface
Banking and is controlled by the surface layer. The application is completely unaware of this and doesn’t need to be. When the
HUI layer is introduced, Surface Banking is disabled and HUI Banking is enabled. The HOME key now becomes a HUI command.
Pressing the HOME button slides the HUI layer to the far left such that Pro Tools Channel 1 is mapped to the last available HUI
Strip. This means you will see Pro Tools track 1 on the Right most Surface strip.
The END key is currently not available in HUI mode. No END key exists on the MC Pro surface.
HUI Banks and the TouchScreen
All HUI strips are visible and accessible via the touch screen. The amount of tracks is always set by the number of HUI banks as-
signed in Pro Tools. The maximum is 4 banks or 32 channels. The tracks on the touch screen always match the HUI bank colors.
Pro Tools - HUI - Surface layers
HUI and Mackie Control protocols do not pass Track Number data; track numbers will always appear blank on EUCON surfaces
when using these modes.