Mackie MCU Pro 8 Channel Control Surface

The Mackie MCU Pro 8-Channel Control Surface provides the familiar feel of analogue-style mixing with the organic feel of faders and knobs at your fingertips. It ensures an easy plug-and-play setup, allowing you to mix with motorised touch-sensitive faders, buttons, and assignable V-pots. It can be used for editing, mixing, automation, and navigational control for any DAW.

Mackie MCU Pro 8-Channel Control Surface Key Features:

• Designed for automation, editing, mixing, and navigational control of a DAW
• Provides the organic feel of analogue-style mixing with faders and knobs
• Ensures an easy plug-and-play setup with touch-sensitive faders, buttons, and V-pots
• Can control panning, send levels, dynamics, EQ, and other DSP plug-in modules
• Features a download of Waveform OEM professional recording software
• The onboard USB MIDI interface allows direct connection to external MIDI gear
• Compatible with MCU XT and C4 Pro modules for expandability
• Comes equipped with the Mackie Musician Collection featuring 23 powerful plug-ins
• Is software friendly and ensures convenient visual feedback
• Uses USB or MIDI connectivity to connect the control surface to a computer
• Each channel strip consists of a touch-sensitive fader, mute button, and record arming button
• Supports dual-function commands with a shift modifier
• Works well with music software programs, and DAW-specific Lexan overlays
• Features the proprietary Mackie communication protocol for seamless production software integration
• Editing controls of the controller include cut, copy and paste

What's in the box?

• 1 x Mackie MCU Pro 8-Channel Control Surface
• 1 x External Power Supply
• Limited 1-Year Warranty

FAQs:

Which software is compatible with the controller?

The control surface is compatible with the Waveform OEM recording software (providing 16 powerful plugins in the DAW Essentials Bundle) and the Avid Pro Tools (with an addition of 23 plugins in the Mackie Musician Collection).

Does it include navigational control?

It ensures automation, editing, mixing, and navigational control for any supported DAW. The navigational control is provided in a tape-style transport with the loop in/out points, jog/wheel shuttle and timeline quick jump buttons.

What are the different modes of operation?

MCU Pro offers three different modes of operation: Mackie Control (used with most of the major DAWs), Logic Control (used with Apple Logic), and HUI (used with Avid Pro Tools).