Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 909)

To connect your control surface to your MIDI interface
1 Connect the MIDI output port of the control surface to a MIDI input port on the MIDI
interface.
MIDI connector
2 Connect a MIDI output port on your MIDI interface to the MIDI input port on your control
surface.
3 Make sure the control surface is turned on.
Configuring Final Cut Pro to Work with a Control Surface
Once a control surface is connected to your MIDI interface, you need to establish
communication between the control surface and Final Cut Pro. You set up control surfaces
in Final Cut Pro in the Control Surface Configuration dialog.
Control surface
arrangement area
Add and Delete buttons
Shift Order Left
and Shift Order Right buttons
Summary area
• Control surface arrangement area: This area displays icons of the currently assigned
control surfaces. You can click a control surface icon to select it, and you can double-click
the icon to adjust the control surface’s settings. If you have multiple control surfaces,
you can drag their icons to rearrange their order.
The order of control surface icons affects the fader ordering on your physical control
surfaces. For more information, see
“Arranging Control Surface Order.”
• Add and Delete buttons: These buttons allow you to add or remove control surfaces in
your configuration. The number of control surfaces allowed is limited to the number
of MIDI ports on your MIDI interface.
• Shift Order Left and Shift Order Right buttons: These buttons allow you to move the
selected control surface icon to rearrange its order.
• Summary area: This area displays information about the currently selected control
surface.
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