Control Surface Group display parameters in Logic Pro

The upper Control Surface Group parameters control aspects of device displays.

Display parameters

Flip Mode pop-up menu: Choose functions for the faders and rotary encoders of channel strips on the device. For control surfaces that have a fader and a rotary encoder for each channel strip, Flip mode allows you to assign both controls to the same parameter, or to swap their assignments. The choices are:
- Off: Default flip mode, with the fader acting as a volume control.
- Duplicate: Assigns both the fader and the encoder to the currently selected encoder parameter.
- Swap: Switches the fader and encoder assignments, making the fader a pan control and the encoder a channel volume control, for example.
- Mute: Disables the fader. This is useful when recording in the same room as the control surface and you want to avoid the mechanical noise of the faders. Any existing automation still functions normally.
Display Mode pop-up menu: Choose to display either the name or the value of the current parameter on the display of your control surface.
Clock Display pop-up menu: If your control surface features a position display, you can choose to represent it as either Beats (musical values) or SMPTE (absolute time values).
Note: The exact elements displayed, and thus their positions, depend on the selected Displays preferences defined in General Display preferences in Logic Pro.
Channel Strip View Mode pop-up menu: Determines how channel strips on your control surface corresponds with Logic Pro channel strips. Choose one of the following views:
- Arrange: The channel strips on the device correspond to Logic Pro channel strips. The layout of channel strips matches the order of tracks shown (from top to bottom) in the Tracks window. Channel strip 1 in the Mixer window is equivalent to channel 1 on the control surface, channel strip 2 in the Mixer is equivalent to channel 2, and so on. Instruments and channels used by multiple tracks are merged into one channel. This is the default mode of most devices.
- All: The channel strips on the device correspond to Logic Pro channel strips of certain types, such as MIDI or aux channels, independent of their use in tracks. Control surfaces that support this view generally allow you to define which channel types you want to display. The contents of the Logic Pro Mixer window automatically follow the state of the control surface when View > Link Control Surfaces is turned on.
- Tracks: This view is similar to Arrange view, but individual channel strips are shown when multiple tracks address the same channel. Typically, this is a software or MIDI instrument channel, with several tracks routed to it.
- Single: This view shows a single channel and its routing to auxes and so on. You can define the editable parameters.
Note: The View is a property of the control surface group, not a global setting. One group can display busses, while the other shows tracks, for example.
Fader Bank for Tracks View field: Drag vertically, or enter an integer value to offset tracks that are controlled by channel strips on the device in Tracks view. For example, if your device has eight channel strips, these might normally be assigned to Logic Pro audio channel strips 1–8. If you set this parameter to 2, the device channel strips would control Logic Pro channel strips 3–10 (1 + 2 = 3).
Fader Bank for All View field: Drag vertically, or enter an integer value to offset Logic Pro channel strips that are controlled by the device in All view. This parameter is available only when multiple channel strip types are displayed in the Mixer. When single channel strip types are displayed, there are separate fader bank parameters (not displayed in the parameter list).
Live Loops Column Bank field: Drag vertically, or enter an integer value to offset the horizontal banking of Live Loops controllers such as the Novation Launchpad. For more information on Live Loops columns, see Logic Pro Live Loops overview.
Channel Strip Parameter pop-up menu: Choose the function controlled by channel strip encoders on the device. The choices are:
- Volume: Channel strip encoders on the device set channel volume.
- Pan: Channel strip encoders on the device set channel panorama position.
- Format: Channel strip encoders on the device select channel format.
- Input: Channel strip encoders on the device select channel input source.
- Output: Channel strip encoders on the device select channel output (main outs/auxes/surround).
- Automation: Channel strip encoders on the device select channel automation mode.
- Group: Channel strip encoders on the device set group membership of the track. Editing the parameter allows you to set either “no group” or a single group. Enabling membership of multiple groups is not possible. (This can only be done directly in the Mixer.)
- Displayed Par.: Channel strip encoders on the device set value of the automation parameter selected in the Tracks window. This is especially useful if you set the control surface to Arrange view, and your Tracks window shows multiple automation subtracks.
Surround Parameter pop-up menu: Choose the surround parameter that rotary encoders control. The choices are:
- Angle: Rotary encoders on the device set surround angle.
- Diversity: Rotary encoders on the device set surround diversity (direction).
- LFE: Rotary encoders on the device set LFE level.
- Spread: Rotary encoders on the device set the Spread parameter of Stereo to Surround channel strips.
- X: Rotary encoders on the device set surround X position.
- Y: Rotary encoders on the device set surround Y position.
- Center: Rotary encoders on the device set the Center channel level.
Note: The X and Y parameters are a different representation of the Angle and Diversity parameters, and thus are independent of them. The X and Y parameters support the use of surround joysticks.
EQ Band field: Drag vertically, or enter an integer value to set the current EQ band. This enables edits to a particular Channel EQ or Linear Phase EQ parameter for all tracks in the EQ Multi Channel View.
EQ Parameter pop-up menu: Choose the parameter of the selected EQ band controlled by the control surface encoders in EQ Multi Channel View. The choices are:
- Frequency: Rotary encoders on the device set the frequency of the selected band.
- Gain: Rotary encoders on the device set the gain of the selected band. This parameter controls the slope of the Low Cut (band 1) and High Cut (band 8) bands of the Channel and Linear Phase EQs.
- Q: Rotary encoders on the device set the Q factor of the selected band.
- Bypass: Rotary encoders on the device bypass the selected EQ band.
All EQs Parameter Page field: Drag vertically, or enter an integer value to set the EQ parameter displayed in EQ Channel Strip view.
The Channel and Linear Phase EQs feature eight bands per audio channel, with each band offering four parameters. All of these parameters can be accessed with your control surface.
If your control surface does not display all EQ parameters at once, you view them by stepping through parameter pages in sequence. For example, if your control surface has eight channel strips, you can directly control parameters 1 to 8 with knobs or sliders 1 to 8 when you switch to EQ Channel Strip Edit view. You then need to switch by a page to access parameters 9 to 16.

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