Mackie Control and Cubase

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Control strip assignment
About this chapter
This chapter describes the assignment of the control strip
to access all VST settings in Cubase: EQ, effect sends,
effect and VST Instrument parameters and so on. It also
contains descriptions of the available parameter pages, as
shown in the display of Mackie Control.
Basic procedures
Selecting a parameter group
To be able to view the settings of a parameter in the dis-
play and edit the values with the V-Pots, you need to se-
lect the corresponding parameter group. This is done by
pressing one of the buttons in the Assignment and Action
Keys sections of Mackie Control.
About the three modes
Mackie Control operates in one of three modes: Selected
Channel, Fader Set or Global. Which mode is used de-
pends on which parameter group is selected. For exam-
ple, pushing the Pan button in the Assignment section
puts Mackie Control in Fader Set mode.
The functionality of the three modes is described on the
following pages.
Selected Channel mode
This mode gives you access to up to eight different pa-
rameters at the same time for a single, selected channel.
You can think of this as working with a single, vertical
channel strip on a mixer desk, having access to pan, EQ,
sends, etc. for a single channel.
When you have selected a parameter group in this mode,
the display shows the following information:
• You select which channel to edit in Selected Channel
mode by pressing one of the eight Select buttons directly
above the faders.
See “Using the Select buttons” on page 10.
The Action Keys section
The Assignment section
The upper row shows the names of the available parameters. Each
parameter can be controlled with the corresponding V-Pot. In this ex-
ample, V-Pot 1 would control the “Freq1” parameter, V-Pot 2 would
control “Gain1” and so on.
The name of the
selected pa-
rameter group.
The selected
channel.
This indicates which page is shown,
and how many pages there are in
the selected parameter group. In
this example, the display shows
page 1 out of 2 pages.