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12 Using Control Surfaces

With Soundtrack Pro

You can connect and use control surfaces to automate

recording, mixing, and other tasks in Soundtrack Pro.

Control surfaces provide a set of hardware controls that let you mix and edit your

projects with greater flexibility and precision than using a mouse to move onscreen

controls. You can also change multiple parameters at once using a control surface.

There are a variety of control surfaces available for use with video and audio

production applications. Most control surfaces include faders, knobs, and buttons

similar to those found on a hardware mixing console, including channel strip controls

for volume, pan, mute, solo, and track selection, and a set of transport controls. Control

surfaces also typically provide buttons for selecting parameters to edit and for selecting

different tracks or banks of tracks, a jog wheel for moving the playhead precisely, and

other controls. When you use a control surface with Soundtrack Pro, some controls are

premapped to common functions. You can map other controls to Soundtrack Pro

commands and functions in the Control Surfaces Preferences pane.

To use a control surface, you connect it to your computer, add it to Soundtrack Pro,

map the controls you want to use to Soundtrack Pro commands, then record control

surface automation data in your project. Recorded control surface automation data

appears in the corresponding envelope in the Timeline.

Connecting Control Surfaces

Soundtrack Pro supports control surfaces that use the Mackie Control and Logic

Control protocols to communicate with your computer. In order to use a control

surface, you must first connect the control surface to a MIDI interface, and connect the

MIDI interface to your computer, unless the control surface allows direct connection to

the computer. Before connecting a MIDI interface, be sure your computer supports the

MIDI interface you plan to use. Read the installation instructions included with the MIDI

interface, and install the latest version of any appropriate firmware or driver software if

needed. For more information, refer to the documentation that came with the control

surface and with the MIDI interface.

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Apple Soundtrack Pro User Manual Page 243