Item

Description

5 Inserts

Press to adjust effects settings.

 

Press the button once to display PL in the Mackie Control Assignment display. The Mackie Control LCD displays

 

the effects that are assigned to each track or bus. The following example shows a three-track project:

 

Turn the V-Pot to scroll through the effects, and press the V-Pot to edit the current effect. In editing mode, PE is

 

displayed in the Assignment display. The following example shows the settings for the Noise Gate plug-in on

 

track one:

PE mode uses the following controls:

•V-Pots1-4:Turn to edit the effect's parameters. For “switch” parameters such as Bypass, press the V-Pot to change the setting.

•V-Pot 5: Turn to scroll through an effect's property pages.

•V-Pot 6: Turn to choose from a plug-in's available presets. Press the V-Pot to choose a preset.

•V-Pot 7: Turn to edit the current effect for a different channel.

•V-Pot 8: Turn to choose other effects for the current channel.

Press the Inserts button again to view effects chains. PS is displayed in the Assignment display. The following example shows the effects chain on track one:

PS mode uses the following controls:

•V-Pots 1, 3, and 5: Turn to choose other effects for the current channel. Press to edit the selected effect and enter PE mode.

•V-Pots 2, 4, and 6: After choosing an effect with V-Pot 1, 3, or 5, press V-Pot 2, 4, or 6 to add it to the channel.

•V-Pot 7: If a channel has multiple pages of effects in the chain, turn to display additional effects. In the previous example, Aud 1 1/2 means that track one has two pages of effects.

•V-Pot 8: Turn to choose effects chains for other channels.

 

When <No Insert> is displayed above a V-Pot, you can turn the V-Pot to view effects that you can add to the

 

chain. New effects are displayed with a *. Press the next V-Pot (to the right) to add the effect.

6 Settings

Press to adjust track or bus settings using the F1 through F6 buttons.

 

• F1: Hold the button and turn the V-Pot to change the automation recording mode for each track and bus

 

track.

 

• F2: Hold the button and turn the V-Pot to change the current panning mode.

 

• F3: Hold the button and press the V-Pot to change the track phase.

 

• F4: Hold the button and turn the V-Pot to change record input monitoring settings when you're using an

 

ASIO audio device.

 

• F5: When the Pan button is selected, press the Settings button and then hold F5 while pressing the V-Pot to

 

change the bus or assignable effects output fader to Pre FX or Post FX.

 

When the Sends button is selected, press the Settings button and hold F5 while pressing the V-Pot to change

 

a track's bus or assignable effects send level to Pre Volume or Post Volume. Press the Sends button to scroll

 

through the available bus and effects sends.

 

• F6: Press the Settings button and hold F6 while pressing the V-Pot on a channel to return the channel's

 

settings to the track defaults.

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