Steinberg Cubase Essential 4 Mackie Control Manual
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21 Transport control About this chapter This chapter describes how to control playback, record- ing, positioning and the time display in Cubase Essential from Mackie Control. The transport controls The transport controls of Mackie Control are located in the lower right corner of the panel: Note that pressing Shift while pressing Rewind or Fast Forward will move the project cursor to the beginning or the end of the project. About the jog wheel The jog wheel will only move the project cursor position in Cubase Essential. Working with markers Fast ForwardPlay Stop Record Rewind Jog Wheel Cursor keys, see “Cur- sor keys” on page 25.
22 Transport control You can use Mackie Control to move directly to particular positions defined in your project with the aid of markers. Also, you can place such a marker at the current position in the project. The most common use for this is probably to move to the L and R markers – the left and right locators. Jumping to a marker In the Markers section (directly above the Transport Con- trols), press the Prev or Next button to jump from the cur- rent project cursor position to the previous or next marker position in your project. Adding a marker 1.Navigate the project cursor to the position where you want to add a marker. 2.In the Markers section, press the Add button. A marker is placed at the current cursor position in your project. Switching the time display When you press the SMPTE/Beats button in the Display section, the time display of Mackie Control will switch be- tween “bars and beats” and the timecode format as se- lected in the project setup of Cubase Essential. This change is also reflected on the Transport bar of Cu- base Essential. !If you first change the time display on the Transport bar in Cubase Essential, this change is not reflected by Mackie Control.
24 Other functions About this chapter This chapter describes the remaining functions available on the Mackie Control panel. Project functions The Save and Revert buttons in the Action Keys section of the panel have the following functionality: Press the Save button to save the current project. This is the same as selecting “Save” from the File menu in Cubase Es- sential. Hold Shift and press Save to save a backup copy of the current project. This is the same as using the “Save New Version” command in Cubase Essential. Press the Revert button to go back to the last saved version of the current project. This is the same as selecting “Revert” from the File menu in Cubase Es- sential. Edit functions The Undo and Redo buttons in the Action Keys section of the panel have the following functionality: Press Undo to undo the last operation in Cubase Es- sential. Pressing Shift and Undo simultaneously opens the Edit History dialog in Cubase Essential. Press Redo to “undo the undo”. Working with windows The buttons above and to the left of the Markers section allow you to control project functions or to open and close windows in Cubase Essential. Press the Left button to set the project cursor to the po- sition marked by the left locator. Hold down Shift and press the Left button to move the left locator to the current project cursor position. Press the Right button to set the project cursor to the position marked by the right locator. Hold down Shift and press the Right button to move the right locator to the current project cursor position. Press the Cycle button to switch Cycle mode on or off in Cubase Essential. This setting is reflected on the Trans- port bar in Cubase Essential. Press the Punch button to switch automatic punch in on or off in Cubase Essential. This setting is reflected on the Transport bar in Cubase Essential. Press the Project button to bring the current Project window to the front. Press the Mixer button to open or close the Mixer win- dow. Press the Motors button to switch on or off the faders’ motors – see “Using the faders” on page 9. Press the Solo Defeat button to disable Solo for all channels. Hold down Shift and press the Solo Defeat button to disable Mute for all channels.
25 Other functions In the top right corner of Mackie Control, next to the dis- play, you will find an LED labeled Rude Solo. This LED lights up as soon as any channel has been soloed. The Rude Solo LED Function keys You can use the function keys F1 to F8 and function key combinations with the Shift button to access functions in Cubase Essential. Refer to the Cubase Essential opera- tion manual for information about how to assign program functions to remote controller function keys. On the rear panel of Mackie Control you will find two input jacks for foot pedals, labeled User Switch A and B. The switches and inputs on the rear panel of Mackie Control The procedure for assigning functions to these foot ped- als is the same as for the function keys (see above). Cursor keys Pressing the cursor keys located to the left of the jog wheel is the same as pressing the arrow keys on your computer keyboard. Showing level meters in the parameter display You can show level meters for each channel in the para- meter display. This is done by pressing Shift and the SMPTE/Beats button. Pressing the same buttons again reverts the display back to parameter mode.
27 Index B Bank buttons 9 C Channel buttons 9 Control strip 13 Cursor keys 25 Cycle button 24 E Edit button 9 Effects Master Effects 18 Sends 18 EQ Selected Channel mode 15 F Fader Set mode 13 Faders 9 Flip button 9 FX Send Selected Channel mode 15 G Global mode 13 I Inserts Selected Channel mode 16 Instruments 19 Selected Channel mode 17 J Jog wheel 21 L Left button 24 Level meters 25 M Mackie Control XT 7 Markers 21 Master Effects 18 Mixer button 24 Motors button 9 Mute buttons 10 N Name/Value button 13 O Overlay 6 P Page Up/Down buttons 13 Pan Fader Set mode 17 Parameter groups 12 Parameter sub-groups 14 Project button 24 Punch button 24 R Read button 10 Rec/Rdy buttons 10 Redo button 24 Revert button 24 Right button 24 S Save button 24 Select buttons Selecting a channel for editing 10 Selected Channel mode 12 Send Effects 18 Sends Selected Channel mode 15 SMPTE/Beats button 22 Solo buttons 10 T Transport controls 21 U Undo button 24 V V-Pots 13 VST Instruments 19 W Wheel 21 Write button 10