Specifications

Chapter 3: Mackie HUI Control Surface 63
To enable an automation mode:
■ While pressing the AUTO switch on the chan-
nel that you want to automate, press an Auto-
mation mode switch.
The channel’s AUTO switch LED will light for
Read mode, and flash for Write, Touch or Latch
mode. The Automation mode will also be briefly
displayed on the selected channels.
To arm all channels for automation:
■ Press OPTION/ALL+ an Automation mode
switch.
To arm all selected channels for automation:
■ Press OPTION/ALL+SHIFT/ADD+ an Automa-
tion mode switch.
Changing Automation mode obeys grouped be-
havior. To temporarily disable grouped behav-
ior, press CTRL/CLUTCH when making the Au-
tomation status change, or suspend groups.
Trim Automation Mode
(TDM Systems Only)
Toggling On and Off
To toggle the TRIM mode on or off for a partic-
ular track, selection of tracks or group, press the
track’s AUTO switch while pressing the master
TRIM switch.
Displaying Trim values
To display trim delta value instead of the abso-
lute parameter value while adjusting Volume or
Send Level TRIM automation, press ALT/FINE
while moving the control.
Current Trim Mode Display
In TRIM automation mode, the scribble strips
display the mode name with the letter T before
it. For example, TRIM/Touch mode is “TTch.”
When a track is trim-enabled, its AUTO switch
LED color displays the automation state in the
following manner:
• During TRIM recording, the LED lights solid
orange.
• When in TRIM Read mode, the LED flashes
green and orange.
• When in any recordable Automation mode
(i.e. Trim Write, Trim Latch, or Trim Touch),
the LED flashes red and orange.
Enabling Automation
Channel and Send Pan
Enabling pan automation from HUI will turn
both channel and send pan on if both are cur-
rently disabled. If one or both automation pa-
rameters are disabled, pressing AUTO/ENABLE
PAN switch will enable both. If both are on,
pressing AUTO/ENABLE PAN will turn them
both off.
Write to Start, End or All
In Pro Tools you can write current automation
values from any insertion point forward (or
backward) to the end (or beginning) of a selec-
tion or track, or to an entire selection or track
during an automation pass. You can also write
trim delta values in the same way.