Using Logic Control Protocol (Mackie Control Universal, Behringer BCF2000, etc.)

Start up ardour. Go to Options/Control Surfaces. You should see "Mackie" as one of the menu items. Turn it on. The faders on the surface should jump to the correct positions. The mackie should work as normal, except that any buttons not on the BCF won't work.

Controls

Strips (faders,pots,rec-enable,mute,solo) etc are fairly obvious.

The Jog wheel has various modes:

  • Scroll mode. Part of the Scrub button cycle. The default. Scrolls the playhead. Displays "SC" in the 2 character LED.

  • Scrub mode. Part of the Scrub button cycle. Rate of rotation of the Jog wheel controls the direction and speed of the transport. Displays "Sb" in the 2 character LED.

  • Shuttle mode. Part of the Scrub button cycle. Jog wheel controls speed and direction of transport. Displays "Sh" in the 2 character LED.

  • Zoom mode. Toggled by the Zoom button. Mutually exclusive with the Scrub cycle. Jog wheel controls zoom level. Displays "Zm" in the 2 character LED.

When holding ffwd or rew, the Jog wheel will adjust the speed.

frm_next and frm_prev will jump to next or previous markers. Markers can be set at the current playhead position with the marker button.

The pot will pan single panners, and linked stereo panners. It won't pan unlinked stereo panners, or 3 or more channel panners.

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