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Mackie Control
The contents of the display depend on the selected para-
meter group. Here, the “Instruments” group is selected,
and the display shows settings for one of the active VST
Instruments:
Using the control strip
When you have selected a parameter group (or parameter
sub-group – see below), you need to go to the page con-
taining the desired parameter. This is done by pressing
the two buttons labeled I/O for Page Down and Sends for
Page Up at the top of the Assignment section.
• Holding down the Shift button (on the right in the sec-
ond row of buttons in the Action Keys section) and press-
ing Page Up or Page Down takes you to the first or last
available parameter page.
Once the parameter is shown in the display, you can ad-
just its value by moving the corresponding V-Pot.
• When you move the V-Pot, the display will switch to
show the parameter values instead of the parameter
names.
After you have moved a V-Pot, the display will keep the values shown for
a short while before switching back to parameter names.
• To view the parameter values without making any
changes, press the Name/Value button in the Display
section.
This makes the display switch to showing parameter values. Click the
Name/Value button again to go back to parameter names.
• The parameter values are also indicated by the LED
rings around the V-Pots.
About parameter sub-groups
Most of the settings are structured in the following way: a
parameter group (accessed by pressing a button in the
Assignment or Action Keys sections) contains one or sev
-
eral pages, each holding one or several parameters.
However, in the case of send effects, master effects, in-
struments (Global mode) and inserts (Selected Channel
mode), there is one more hierarchical level, called a para
-
meter sub-group. For example, the parameters for master
effects are structured in the following way:
The “Master Effects” parameter group contains eight sub-
groups – one for each insert effect slot in your application.
Each sub-group contains a number of pages which con
-
tain a number of parameters (both numbers depending on
the activated effects).
• To select another parameter sub-group, go to the first
page of the current sub-group and use V-Pot 1.
The figure below shows the first page of the first parameter sub-group in
the Master Effects group.
The upper row shows the names of the available parameters. As you
can see, only four parameters are shown on one page, allowing longer
parameter names. Each parameter can be controlled with any of the
two V-Pots above it. Here, the “Octave” parameter would be controlled
with V-Pot 1 or 2, “Semitone” would be controlled with V-Pot 3 or 4
and so on.
The name of the selected
parameter sub-group.
See “About parameter
sub-groups” on page 24
for an explanation of
parameter sub-groups.
The name
of the VST
Instrument.
This indicates which page is
shown, and how many pages
there are in the selected
parameter group. In this ex-
ample, the display shows
page 2 out of 8 pages.
This indicates Master Effect slot 1. Use V-Pot 1 to select an-
other parameter sub-group (i.e. another Master Effect slot).