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    i EuCon Application Setup Guide MUSIC | A UDIO POST | VIDEO | FILM Document Revision: A Ar tist Series professional contr ol surface professional contr ol surface[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE iii Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction ......................................................................... ................ 5 Section 2: Logic Pro .............................................................................. ................ 5 S[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE INTRODUCTION 5 Section 1: Introduction The EuCon Application Setup Guide helps you setup EuContro l to work with your specific application. EuCont rol must be installed befo re proceeding to your ap- plication’s section in this Guide. See the Installation s[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE NUENDO 6 Section 3: Nuendo Nuendo 4 is a powerful DAW that can handle as many tracks and effects as your workstation’s CPU can support. It offers multitrack recording, editing, and mon it ori ng. Steinberg’s EuCon adapt er enables fully integrated control[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE NUENDO 7 4. Select EuCon from the drop-down list. The EuCon device is added, the cont rol surface immediately updates, the faders and knobs display track function s, and the EuCon De vice Setup dialog appears (Figure 3-1). 3.1 EuCon Device Setup This section [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE NUENDO 8 3.1.1 EuConized channel types The EuConized channel types section contains checkboxes that det er min e which channel types appear on your co ntrol surface. If a certain channel is available in Nuendo and the corr espondin g checkbox is selected, tha[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE NUENDO 9 Tape machine style transport not checked Stop : The control surface STOP button copies the Nuendo stop button. Fast Forward/Rewin d : The FF/RW buttons function as EuCon Momentary/ Latch-Switches. If the button is presse d and released quickly, the s[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE CUBASE 10 Section 4: Cubase NOTE: Cubase is supported in MC Mix version 1.0.1 and higher. Cubase version 4.1.2 and higher is required. Download the la test version of Cubase from Steinberg's web site. To enable Cubase to work with the Artist Series, you [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE CUBASE 11 4. Select EuCon from the drop-down list. The EuCon device is added, the cont rol surface immediately updates, the faders and knobs display track function s, and the EuCon De vice Setup dialog appears (Figure 4-1). 4.1 EuCon Device Setup This section[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE CUBASE 12 4.1.1 EuConized channel types The EuConized channel types section contains checkboxes that det er min e which channel types appear on your co ntrol surface. If a certain channel is available in Cubase and th e corresponding checkbox is selected, tha[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE CUBASE 13 Tape machine style transport not checked Stop : The control surface STOP button copies the Cubase stop button. Fast Forward/Rewin d : The FF/RW buttons function as EuCon Momentary/ Latch-Switches. If the button is presse d and released quickly, the [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 14 Section 5: Mackie Control Mackie Control Universal is a widely used MIDI-based protocol that cont rols ap- plication parameters and su pports metering in many DAW applications. The ex- tent to which Mackie Control can be used depends on the [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 15 2. Double-click the Euphonix icon in the Other section at the bottom of the window. The Euphonix prefer ence pane opens. Figure 5-2 Euphonix preference pane 3. Locate the Application yo u want to control in the Finder. This is found in your [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 16 Figure 5-3 Euphonix preference pane wi th application se lected and Mackie Control set 6. Close the Euphonix preference pane and reboot your computer if prompted to do so. The next steps configure yo ur specific application to be controlled [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 17 To finish the configuration: 1. In Final Cut Pro, choose Tools->Control Surfaces . The Control Surface dialog opens. 2. In Soundtrack Pro, choose Soundtrack Pro->Preferences . The Prefer ences dialog opens. Figure 5-4 Add Control Surfa[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 18 Figure 5-5 Add Control Surface dialog 5. Select Mackie Control from the Control Surface Type drop-down menu. 6. For the Input and Output Connection drop- down menus, select the MIDI send and receive ports. These will be the same port, so if [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 19 5.3 Digital Performer Before proceeding, you must already have completed the steps described in Setting Up EuCon for Mackie Control on page 14. To finish the configuration: 1. Open Applications->Utilities->Audio MIDI Setup and select t[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE MACKIE CONTROL 20 Figure 5-7 Control Surface dialog 6. Click the OK Button. Your Artist Series device should now be controlling Digital Performer. If not: • Make sure Digital Performer is the front-most application (i.e., the one re- ceiving keystrokes and [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE PRO TOOLS (HUI) 21 Section 6: Pro Tools (HUI) HUI is a control protocol developed by Mackie that works with Pro Tools. The Artist Series uses HUI commands and exte nsive Pro Tools key commands to con- trol Pro Tools operations. It has the addi tional advantag[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE PRO TOOLS (HUI) 22 2. Double-click the Euphonix icon in the Other section at the bottom of the window. The Euphonix prefer ence pane opens. Figure 6-2 Euphonix preference pane 3. Locate the Application yo u want to control in the Finder. This is found in your[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE PRO TOOLS (HUI) 23 Figure 6-3 Euphonix preference pane with applic ation selected and HUI protocol set 6. Close the Euphonix preference pane and reboot your computer if prompted to do so. 6.2 Setting up Pro Tools to Control the Artist Series 1. Launch Pro Too[...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE PRO TOOLS (HUI) 24 Figure 6-4 Pro Tools Peripherals dialog Pro Tools has configuration boxes for th e four possible co ntrollers. We rec- ommend configuring all four HUI controllers. 4. Select HUI from the Type drop-down box for each controller to configure. [...]

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    professional contr ol surfaces Ar tist Series Ar tist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE PRO TOOLS (HUI) 25 6. Select 8 from the Ch # drop-down menu as the numb er of channels for each controller. 7. Press OK . Pro Tools updates the channel and trac k information and transmits that to the Artist Series devices. Your Artist Series device should no[...]