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Mackie Control
• When you solo a channel, it is automatically selected as
well.
• If you select a channel and then select another set of
eight channels for fader control, the Select button will go
dark.
This is because the channel is still selected, but it’s not shown in the cur-
rent fader set.
A note about automation
The Read and Write buttons in the top row of the Action
Keys section control the status of the Read and Write but-
tons in the program Mixer, allowing remote control of
Mixer automation.
• Press the Read button to enable or disable the reading
of automation data for the selected channel.
• Hold down the Shift button and press the Read button
to enable or disable the reading of automation data for all
channels.
• Press the Write button to enable or disable the record-
ing of automation data for the selected channel.
• Hold down the Shift button and press the Write button
to enable or disable the recording of automation data for
all channels.
Control strip assignment
This section describes the assignment of the control strip
to access all VST settings: EQ, effect sends, effect and
VST Instrument parameters and so on. It also contains de-
scriptions 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.
The Action Keys section
The Assignment section