Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 307)

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USING NATIVELY
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
CONTROLLERS
Mixcraft 7 features native support for the Mackie Control Universal (formerly known
as “Logic Control”), Frontier Design Group Tranzport, and Novation Launchpad, as
well as Acoustica’s own Mixcraft Remote mobile app for smart phones and tablets (see
Configuring The Mixcraft Mobile App, pg. 306). This means Mixcraft already “knows”
how to interact with the knobs, sliders, and switches for these hardware controllers.
Once they’re plugged in and enabled, no further assignment or MIDI mapping is
needed. Hooray!
CONFIGURING NATIVELY SUPPORTED USB AND MIDI CONTROLLERS
No special drivers are necessary to set up a Mackie Control Universal, Tranzport,
Launchpad, or the Mixcraft Remote mobile app to work in Mixcraft. Here’s how to add
them.
 Plug it in. If you’re using a newer Mackie Control Universal, Tranzport, or
Launchpad, plug a USB cable into the control device on one side, and an open USB
port on the other. If you’re using an older Mackie Control with MIDI ports, plug these
into either a dedicated MIDI port on a USB MIDI interface, or use the MIDI in/out jacks
on your audio interface.
 Upon plugging in the controller device, Mixcraft will display the following window.
This acknowledges that you’ve plugged in a new piece of hardware. Click OK.
 In the upper left corner, click File>Preferences, then select Control Surfaces. In the
Type column at the left, click on Add New. When you see a the device in the drop-
down menu, click to select it.