Specifications

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Mackie Control + Extender Combo
Requirements/Setting up:
To use the Mackie Control Universal and Extender with Reason, you need to se-
lect the "Mackie Control" mode of operation for both control surfaces:
1. Hold down the SELECT buttons for Ch 1 and Ch 2 and turn on the
first control surface - you are then asked which mode of operation
to use. Select "Mackie Ctrl" by pressing the corresponding V-Pot.
2. Repeat this for the other control surface.
You must connect the both control surfaces using two-way MIDI (both MIDI In
and Out should be connected for both surfaces).
Reason will automatically find the Mackie Control and the Extender if you click
the Auto-detect button on the Control Surfaces and Keyboards page in the Pref-
erences.
Since the program cannot know how you wish to use the auto-detected control
surfaces, this will add four Mackie control surfaces to the list:
Control, Combo - Extender Left, Combo - Extender Right and Extender.
You have to manually tick the “Use with Reason” check box for the surface con-
figuration you wish to use. In this case, select either “Combo, Extender Left” or
“Combo, Extender Right”, depending on whether you have the Extender to the left
or to the right of the Mackie Control.
About the default mapping:
When you use a combo of Mackie Control and Extender, the default mapping is
very similar to that of the Mackie Control - please see that description (earlier in
this document) for details about all global mappings (transport, navigation, etc.).
The Extender adds eight more channels to the Mackie Control. This leads to the
following differences in the mapping for various Reason devices:
D Mixer 14:2
All 14 channels are available at the same time - the Channel Left/Right but-
tons are not used.
D Line Mixer 6:2
Rotaries 1-6 control channel pan settings; rotaries 9-14 control Aux Send
levels.
D Thor
There are no variations - all parameters are available at the same time.
D Subtractor
There are no variations - all parameters are available at the same time.
D Malström
The first eight sets of faders, rotaries and buttons always control filter set-
tings.
Faders/rotaries/buttons 9-16 can either control settings for Oscillator
A+Modulator A or Oscillator B+Modulator B. These variations are selected by
pressing the Assignment buttons Track or Send, respectively.
D NN19
A few more parameters are available in the default mapping, due to the larger
number of faders and rotaries.
D Redrum
All 10 drum channels are available at the same time - the Channel Left/Right
buttons are not used.
D BV-512 Vocoder
As with the Mackie Control, the faders control the band levels and you use the
Channel Left/Right buttons to select which vocoder bands to control. With
the Combo however, you can control sixteen bands at the same time.