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EuCon Application Setup Guide
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Artist Series professional control surfaces MC Control, MC Mix, Studio Monitor Express, Studio Monitor Pro, EuControl, EuCon and EuCon Powered are trademarks of Euphonix Inc. All other product names are trademarks of their respective manufacturers. ii Artist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction......................................................................................... 5 Section 2: Logic Pro.............................................................................................. 5 Section 3: Nuendo ................................................................................................ 6 3.1 EuCon Device Setup ..................................................................
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Section 1: Introduction The EuCon Application Setup Guide helps you setup EuControl to work with your specific application. EuControl must be installed before proceeding to your ap- plication’s section in this Guide. See the Installation section in the Quickstart or User Guides to install EuControl if you have not already done so. Section 2: Logic Pro Logic Pro 8 works with your Artist Series control surface with very little additional setup. Make
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 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 monitoring. Steinberg’s EuCon adapter enables fully integrated control of all of Nuendo’s functions from the Artist Series control surfaces. NOTE: The EuCon Adapter is available in MC Mix version 1.0.1 and later. This version of the adapter works with Nuendo version 4.1.2 and la
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 3. Click the + button (add) on the top-left. A drop-down list of devices appears with EuCon near the top of the list. 4. Select EuCon from the drop-down list. The EuCon device is added, the control surface immediately updates, the faders and knobs display track functions, and the EuCon Device Setup dialog appears (Figure 3-1). 3.1 EuCon Device Setup This section discusses the EuCon Device Setup dialog which allows editing track assignment and tran
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 8 Figure 3-1 EuCon Device Setup Artist Series EuCon APPLICATION SETUP GUIDE NUENDO
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 3.1.1 EuConized channel types The EuConized channel types section contains checkboxes that determine which channel types appear on your control surface. If a certain channel is available in Nuendo and the corresponding checkbox is selected, that channel can be selected to appear on the surface. This channel is called EuConized. All channels except Input channels are EuConized by default and can appear on the surface. This is useful to eliminate tra
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Tape machine style transport not checked Stop: The control surface STOP button copies the Nuendo stop button. Fast Forward/Rewind: The FF/RW buttons function as EuCon Momentary/ Latch-Switches. If the button is pressed and released quickly, the switches do NOT latch but behave momentarily, resembling the way these buttons work in the Nuendo GUI. If the Artist Series FF/RW buttons are held down longer than the latch time set in the Preferences-Setup
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 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 latest version of Cubase from Steinberg's web site. To enable Cubase to work with the Artist Series, you must obtain an activation code: 1. Create a user account in the MySteinberg area of Steinberg’s web site. If you already have a MySteinberg account and have already registered your version of Cubase 4, continu
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 4. Select EuCon from the drop-down list. The EuCon device is added, the control surface immediately updates, the faders and knobs display track functions, and the EuCon Device Setup dialog appears (Figure 4-1). 4.1 EuCon Device Setup This section discusses the EuCon Device Setup dialog which allows editing track assignment and transport control parameters. If the EuCon Device setup dialog is not open: From Cubase choose Devices->Device Setup, then
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 4.1.1 EuConized channel types The EuConized channel types section contains checkboxes that determine which channel types appear on your control surface. If a certain channel is available in Cubase and the corresponding checkbox is selected, that channel can be selected to appear on the surface. This channel is called EuConized. All channels except Input channels are EuConized by default and can appear on the surface. This is useful to eliminate tra
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Tape machine style transport not checked Stop: The control surface STOP button copies the Cubase stop button. Fast Forward/Rewind: The FF/RW buttons function as EuCon Momentary/ Latch-Switches. If the button is pressed and released quickly, the switches do NOT latch but behave momentarily, resembling the way these buttons work in the Nuendo GUI. If the Artist Series FF/RW buttons are held down longer than the latch time set in the Preferences-Setup
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Section 5: Mackie Control Mackie Control Universal is a widely used MIDI-based protocol that controls ap- plication parameters and supports metering in many DAW applications. The ex- tent to which Mackie Control can be used depends on the specific application’s implementation. The Artist Series devices use EuCon-to-Mackie Control conver- sion software along with a special EuCon MIDI Driver. These use internal MIDI ports to easily control these progra
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 2. Double-click the Euphonix icon in the Other section at the bottom of the window. The Euphonix preference pane opens. Figure 5-2 Euphonix preference pane 16 3. Locate the Application you want to control in the Finder. This is found in your Applications folder or in the program’s own folder at the top level of the hard drive. 4. Drag the Application icon into the middle of the Euphonix preference pane and release the mouse button. Its name and lo
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Artist Series professional control surfaces Figure 5-3 Euphonix preference pane with application selected and Mackie Control set 6. Close the Euphonix preference pane and reboot your computer if prompted to do so. 17 The next steps configure your specific application to be controlled by Mackie Control. This differs for each application and instructions can be found in the ap- plication’s user manual. For your convenience, we’ve included instructions for several applications in the following
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 5.2 Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro Configuring Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro to operate with the Artist Series devices is simple. Since both are Apple applications, their interfaces are similar and instructions may be combined. Before proceeding, you must already have completed the steps described in Setting Up EuCon for Mackie Control on page 15. To finish the configuration: 1. In Final Cut Pro, choose Tools->Control Surfaces. The Control Su
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 4. Now both programs can follow the same instructions. Click the + button. The Add Control Surface dialog opens. 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 Soundtrack Pro uses ports 5–8, the first controller sends and receives on port 5. 19 7. Click OK to
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Artist Series professional control surfaces 5.3 Digital Performer Before proceeding, you must already have completed the steps described in Setting Up EuCon for Mackie Control on page 15. To finish the configuration: 1. Open Applications->Utilities->Audio MIDI Setup and select the MIDI Devices tab (Figure 5-6). 20 Figure 5-6 Audio MIDI Setup 2. Click Add Device, double-click the device that appears in the Audio MIDI Set- up dialog, and assign a device name (i.e., MCU1). There is no need to m
