While I’m glad I finally figured this out, I still say Steinberg needs to rework this so that any of the devices, even when all are set up as Mackie Control devices, can access any and all channels independently. If there’s a way around that, which I doubt, I haven’t found it yet. the Q-Con will NOT be able to access and control channels 9-32, since they are assigned to other devices). Be aware that, when set up this way, it is not possible for one device to access the channels that have been assigned to another device (e.g. Devices that present more than one port to Cubase require the correct port to be selected in order for transport and other function buttons to work correctly. If there are more than 32 channels, then ANY of the devices can access and control channels 33 and up. Next, the Behringer X-Touch, which controls channels 9-16 and finally I set up the Icon Global Q-Con Pro it controls channels 1-8. Next, I set up the Behringer Motor61 it controls channels 17-24. ![]() ![]() To clarify, I set up the Roland A500Pro first it will control channels 25-32 (if there are that many in the project). Once I figured that out, it was a matter of deciding which of the four devices I want to to use to control which group of eight channels. Also, and this makes no sense either, the first eight channels get assigned to the last device you add the second eight are assigned to the next to last device, and so on. This makes no sense, but that’s what it does. When you have more than one remote device set up as a Mackie Control device, Cubase ‘auto-assigns’ banks of eight mixer channels to each device, and only a particular device can access the eight channels it has been assigned. For the benefit of those who might also face this, here’s the deal: I’d welcome any thoughts at all anyone might have on this situation! For that reason, this seems more like a bug or an oversight, rather than expected behavior.Īt this point I’m willing to accept that I’m doing or not doing something that’s causing this situation, rather than assuming that Cubase could have such a glaring limitation and Steinberg not address it! I spoke to someone at Steinberg who said this is expected behavior (that Cubase cannot ‘handle’ more than one Mackie Control device at a time) and the there are no plans to address it, but I find that hard to believe I’d rather assume that I was told that by someone who didn’t really know what they were talking about. I should mention that Cubase ALLOWS multiple Mackie Control devices to be set up, and gives no warning or other information about any possible issues when setting up a new Mackie Control device if there is already one set up. I have tried this in a different DAW and have no problem with all four being set up as Mackie Control devices and they work perfectly. I can use any of the devices with full functionality as long as that device is the ONLY one set up as a Mackie Control device the others have to be set up as Mackie HUI or something else, in which case I don’t have all the functions available for those devices. Switching between banks of faders is either impossible or very quirky -Many of the buttons that work fine when a given device is the ONLY Mackie Control device, don’t work when all four are Mackie Control devices (or even if more than ONE is).However, when I do this, the devices don’t function properly. ![]() I need to be able to set up all four devices as Mackie Control devices in order to use the FULL functionality of each. My project studio includes the following hardware devices:
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