User`s guide

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User’s Guide
User’s Guide
Troubleshooting
• Move a fader or knob on your Mackie Control
and the corresponding on-screen control
should move. If it doesn’t, first check all the
MIDI connections. Try using different cables
to make the connections.
• Move an on-screen fader and see if the
corresponding Mackie Control fader moves. If
it doesn’t, make sure the settings are correct
as described above and in Digidesign’s MIDI
Control Surfaces Guide.
• Try using a different set of MIDI ports. Repeat
the “Set Up MIDI Controllers” instructions on
page 6 using the new MIDI ports.
• Check the status of the MIDI interface and
drivers that you are using.
Selecting HUI Mode
• When the Mackie Control first boots up out of
the box (or after the HUI Mode upgrade), it will
prompt you to select either “Mackie Ctrl” mode
(press Ch. 1 V-Pot) or “HUI” mode (press Ch. 4
V-Pot).
• Another way to get to the mode select dialog is
to hold down the SELECT buttons on Channels
1 and 2 on boot-up.
• Once set, the Mackie Control version 2
firmware will “remember” the selected mode
on subsequent boot-ups until the mode select
dialog is changed again as described above.
Tutorial: Using HUI Mode
Navigating Around the Mixer
When Mackie Control connects to Pro Tools, the
software assigns eight channels of the Pro Tools
mixer to be represented on the Mackie Control
channel strips. These channels are highlighted in the
Pro Tools mixer window.
Pressing the BANK  and BANK  buttons [14]
shifts this block of channel strips left or right by 8
channels in the Pro Tools mixer.
Pressing the CHANNEL  and CHANNEL 
buttons [15] does the same, only the Mackie Control
is shifted by a single channel strip. In this manner,
the Mackie Control can access as many tracks as
exist in the Pro Tools mixer.
FA DER BA NK S
BANK
CHANNEL
FLIP
EDIT
FA DER BA NK S
BANK
CHANNEL
V-SEL
INSERT
Adjusting Channel Pan
Suppose you want to adjust the pan on Track 1
(a mono track) in the Pro Tools mixer. Use the
BANK buttons [14] to highlight tracks 1-8 in the Pro
Tools mixer, and make sure the LED next to the PAN
button [8] is lit (if it isn’t, then just press the PAN
button). Now rotate the V-Pot on channel strip 1 to
pan the signal left or right in the mix.
If Track 1 were a stereo track, you would also
want to pan the right channel of the track. To do
this, press the PAN button a second time. The PAN
LED now flashes, and rotating the V-Pot on Track 1
adjusts the right channel pan in the mix.
ASSIGNMENT
PLUG-INS
PAN
SENDS
I/O
EQ DYN
SEND
ASSIGN
PLUG-IN
PAN
INPUT OUTPUT
VIEW