Specifications

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Automation can only be written while Pro Tools
is in play or half-speed play or record. You can-
not write automation while Pro Tools is
stopped, fast forwarding or rewinding.
• CTRL/CLUTCH+RTZ: Write to Start
• CTRL/CLUTCH+END: Write to End
• CONTROL+SHIFT+RTZ or CONTROL+SHIFT+
END: Write to All
•To suppress the warning dialog that appears
with this command, press the OPTION/ALL
switch while choosing the command.
Switched Controls and
Automation with HUI
Pro Tools treats switched controls such as mutes
and send mutes as touch sensitive controls. Au-
tomation data is written for as long as the switch
or button for that control is pressed or touched.
For example, if you have just written a series of
mute on and off states on a channel in quick
succession, the manual method for clearing this
automation data would require you to move to
the Edit window, choose automation playlist for
mute, select the mute automation data, and de-
lete it.
In Pro Tools, you don't have to perform all of
these steps. Instead, you can perform another
automation pass on the track and press the
Mute switch when it reaches the state you want
to keep. As long as you keep pressing the Mute
switch, Pro Tools overwrites the underlying
mute data on the track with the current state of
the switch until you press Stop.
On the Mackie HUI, this behavior also applies to
plug-in-switched controls (in the DSP Edit/As-
sign section of HUI). Any of these four switches
will work in the same manner.
Automating Plug-Ins
Selection of parameters for automation must be
made in Pro Tools software.
To record automation data for a Plug-In:
1 Press the PLUG-IN switch in the Automation
Enable section (below the DSP Edit/Assign sec-
tion). The PLUG-IN switch LED will light, indi-
cating that automation for plug-ins is armed.
2 The HUI does not support arming of plug-in
controls. You must arm controls on-screen in
Pro Tools. Click the Automation button in the
Plug-In window.
3 Choose the plug-in parameters that you want
to automate and click Add. Only the parameters
that you choose here will be automatable. Click
OK to close this dialog.
4 Press the AUTO switch on the channel con-
taining the plug-in, and select an automation
mode in the Automation mode switch section.
For an initial automation pass, you may want to
choose Write mode.
Once a parameter is armed for automation, the
6 o’clock position LED on the corresponding
V-POT will flash if the channel is placed into
any Automation Write mode (Write, Touch or
Latch).
5 Press Play to begin writing automation. Move
the V-POTs and SELECT switches to change the
plug-in parameters.
6 When you have finished, press Stop.
7 Press the RETURN TO ZERO switch and then
press PLAY to listen to your automation pass.