Mackie Control and Cubase

9
Basic mixing
About this chapter
This chapter describes how to work with the faders and
the rows of buttons above them (Solo, Mute, Select and
Rec), and how to select which channels are affected by
the fader settings.
Selecting which channels to control
Mackie Control’s fader section controls eight different
channels in Cubase (plus the master level, which has its
own fader). You select which channels to control with the
aid of the Fader Banks section and the Fader Groups sec-
tion of Mackie Control.
The Fader Banks section
The Fader Groups section
Using the controls in the Fader Banks section
In the Fader Banks section, press the left or right Bank
button to switch from one set of eight channels to the
next. For example, if you are currently controlling Mixer
channels 1 to 8, pressing the right Bank button will switch
to the next eight channels, i.e. channels 9 to 16. To go
back to the previous eight channels, press the left Bank
button.
• If you press the left or right Channel button in the Fader
Banks section, the fader assignment will shift in steps of
one channel instead.
Let’s say the faders currently control audio channels 9-16. If you press
the left Channel button, the faders will shift one step to the left and con-
trol audio channels 8-15.
• Pressing the Flip button in the Fader Banks section
switches the parameter assignment between the faders
and the V-Pots, i.e. what was controlled with a fader is
now controlled with the corresponding V-Pot and vice
versa.
• Press the Edit button in the Fader Banks section to
open an editor for the current selection.
• Hold down Shift and press Edit to close the currently
active window.
Using the controls in the Fader Groups section
In Cubase, you can create so called channel view presets
in your Mixer window, by selecting the channels to be dis-
played and clicking the symbol button at the bottom left of
the Mixer window.
The Steinberg key assignments for Mackie Control make
use of the channel views feature. In the Fader Groups
section, the first channel view defined in Cubase is as-
signed to button 1, the second channel view is assigned
to button 2 and so on. In this way, you can switch between
any of the first eight channel views of Cubase by pressing
one of the buttons in the Fader Groups section.
Selects the
previous eight
channels.
Selects the
next eight
channels.