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1140Logic Pro User Guide
Overview of Control Surfaces preferences
Settings that affect the onscreen appearance and performance of control surfaces are
changed in the Control Surfaces preferences window. For complete documentation for
each Control Surfaces preferences window, see General Control Surfaces preferences.
Open the Control Surfaces preference window
Choose Logic Pro > Control Surfaces > Preferences (or use the Open Control Surfaces
Preferences key command).
Click the General or Help Tags button to access the associated preferences.
Temporarily disable your control surfaces
Choose Logic Pro > Control Surfaces > Bypass all Control Surfaces.
This command is useful for silencing motorized control surface faders when recording
in the same room. It is also handy when troubleshooting MIDI data errors or for reducing
MIDI bandwidth requirements.
Control surfaces Modal dialog display in Logic Pro
All modal dialogs (except File Open dialogs) appear on the LCD display of control surfaces
that feature text displays. Examples of modal dialogs include authorization warnings, edit
confirmations, or error messages.
Important: You cannot perform actions in any other window while a modal dialog is visible.
The modal dialog text appears in the upper row of the LCD. If the dialog text does not fit in
the LCD’s upper row, it scrolls after three seconds. You can scroll the dialog text manually
with an appropriate control for your device. Once you start scrolling the text manually,
automatic scrolling is disabled.
If your control surface has an Enter or OK button, press it to trigger the default button in
the dialog.
If your control surface has a Cancel or an Exit button, press it to trigger the button
labeled Cancel or Abort in the dialog.
All buttons in the modal dialog (push buttons, including Enter, Default, and Cancel, as
well as checkboxes and radio buttons, but not pop-up menus) appear in the display’s
lower row.
Pressing a control surface button below the display triggers the appropriate function in
the dialog, if applicable. Once you press an Enter or a Cancel button on the control surface
(or click it onscreen), the dialog disappears, and all controls and displays return to their
previous state.
When a File Open dialog appears onscreen, the “There is a file select dialog on the screen”
message appears on the LCD. Use your keyboard and mouse to perform the required
operation and close the dialog.