Using The Graphic User Interface (Gui); The Beauty Of It - Mackie Digital 8 Bus Owner's Manual

Using the Graphic
User Interface (GUI)

The Beauty of It...

The Digital 8•Bus provides
exceptional power from the control
surface alone. However, when
combined with an on-screen Graphic
User Interface (GUI) the console offers
yet another facet of audio bliss.
Some features are only available on-
screen and are much easier to perform
on-screen. Yet some control surface
features are more efficient, like multiple
fader moves or inverse fader moves.
The software functions included
herein are definitely in the "I always
wanted to be able to do that" category.
In this section, we touch each control
and parameter—section by section.
The Mouse
All references to mouse clicks imply
left-click on the PS/2 mouse unless
otherwise specified. Certain keyboard
commands combine with mouse clicks
to increase capabilities of the OS and to
help increase speed and accuracy.
• Control-click implies holding the
Control (Ctrl) key down while clicking
on an item.
• Alt-click implies holding the Alt key
down while clicking on an item.
• Drag implies holding the mouse
button down while moving it across the
screen or across channels.
FADER
• Directly mirrors the onboard fader.
• Click and hold on fader; drag up
and down to adjust fader level.
• When FADER MOTORS is turned
off in the automation section, fader level
can only be adjusted on-screen.
• Fader Bank 2 can be viewed on-
screen along with any other selected
Fader Bank (Ctrl-8 or on-screen Faders
button.
• To set fader to unity gain, click
anywhere in the fader throw region
while holding down Control on the
keyboard.
• Right-click a channel fader and
drag across several adjacent faders to
copy its level position to each.
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• To jump the fader to a specific point in the fader
throw, simply click the mouse on that point.
• This fader has no effect on the channel input level.
It controls channel level to bus 1-8, L/R mix, and
the aux outputs or, if Faders to Tape is selected,
level to tape.
Label Fader (Scribble Strip)
• Double-click in the channel name region.
• Type in track name.
• Tab to next channel or shift+tab to previous
channel.
• Press enter or click anywhere else on-screen to
exit "track" naming.
MUTE
• Highlighting the MUTE button turns the channel
off in the main mix and bus 1–8 outputs.
• Use the mouse to click the MUTE button and
highlight it.
• Simply click on more MUTE buttons to mute more
channels.
• To select or deselect multiple adjacent MUTE
buttons, click and hold on any MUTE, then drag
across the desired channels.
SOLO
• The function of the SOLO button (PFL, AFL, or
MIXDOWN) is dependent on the solo mode
selection in the onboard SOLO/STUDIO section.
• Click the on-screen SOLO button to hear one
channel alone.