Third-Party Control Panel Support for Mixing

For more information on exporting clips, ranges, and files, see Chapter 171, “Editing Basics in the Fairlight Page.”‌

DaVinci Resolve supports HUI- and MCU-compatible third-party mixing control panels with up to eight faders, such as the Mackie MCU Pro Control Surface, connected via USB MIDI, and selectable in the Control Panels panel of the Resolve System Preferences. Supported basic panel controls that correspond to Fairlight features at the time of this writing include the following.

Transport controls including:

— Rewind (REW)

— Fast Forward (FF)

— Stop (double-press the Stop button for Home in the Timeline)

— Play (double-press the Play button to “play again”)

— Record (press Record+Play to begin recording if one or more tracks is record-enabled)

— Jog control (Press SCRUB and rotate the jog wheel)

Channel Strip controls including:

— Rotary controls for panning, with Rotary Value display and Rotary touch

— Alphanumeric Track Name display

— Record button to record-enable tracks (only works if an input is patched to a track input)

— Solo, with a double-press selecting or de-selecting that track

— Mute

— Select to select the track corresponding to that channel strip

— Fader control and optional Level display

— Channel and Fader Bank buttons to move left and right among banks of channel strips

— Double-press the Fader Bank Left button to move the playhead Home in the mixer (track 1)

— Double-press the Fader Bank Right to move to the Master channel strips

Marker buttons:

— Marker to add a marker

— Pressing the Marker+Stop buttons sets Home

— Pressing the Marker+FF/REW buttons jumps the playhead forward or backward

Additional supported controls for control panels that have them include:

— Master Solo clear/restore

— Undo (pressing the Undo+Option buttons does Redo)

— Arrows to move the selection

— Zoom horizontal and vertical controls

— Audio Tracks, to turn Automation On/Off

— Write/Trim/Touch/Latch switches

— Nudge controls

— Cut, Copy, and Paste

Monitoring controls include:

— Level control

— Dim

— Mute

— Alt Speaker

For more information on third-party mixing control panel support, see the Blackmagic Support site at https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/davinci-resolve-and-fusion.

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