MACKIE Digital 8Bus D8B v5.1 - Manual (Page 170)

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Appendix F
HUI Mode
What’s a HUI?
Mackie introduced HUI (Human User Inter-
face) in 1997, one of the industry’s first affordable
motorized touch-sensitive fader controllers
available for Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs).
One of the big drawbacks of any DAW is
having to use a mouse and keyboard to perform
things you used to do on an analog mixer. Clicking
on a visual representation of a fader and trying to
drag the mouse smoothly in order to achieve an
amazing fade-out is difficult, if not impossible, for
many of us. Likewise, turning a “virtual knob” on
a computer screen just doesn’t cut it for some
folks. The HUI allows you to use familiar analog-
style faders and knobs to control most of your
DAW’s parameters.
HUI mode allows the Digital 8•Bus to work
with your HUI-supported DAW via the MIDI
interface. When HUI mode is active and the HUI
layer is on-screen, you will see that the eight
right-most channel faders and the master fader
are all that are active. This is because HUI’s MIDI
mapping only provides for eight active channels at
a time, but the Bank and Channel scroll buttons
allow you to move back and forth across fader
channels on the DAW mixing window. The Chan-
nel buttons scroll one channel at a time, and the
Bank buttons scroll eight channels at a time.
Click the question mark button (?) in the
upper right corner of the screen, and a map of the
control section of the D8B appears on the left side
of the screen, with numerical references over
many of the buttons and a list of the HUI control
functions provided by each button. At the end of
this appendix, we have provided a chart showing
how each of these buttons controls specific
functions for several of the most popular DAWs
supporting the HUI.