Mackie Control - anyone upgraded firmware?

Do you have the Mackie Control or the Mackie Control Universal?
If you have the MC you can't upgrade to ver 2xx of the firmware, unless you replaced the old chips with the new ver 2 chips with the upgrade kit from Mackie. If you have the MCU then make you are using the proper tempo in Sonar to slow the stream to the Mackie down enough. If it is 100 bpm try 50 bpm.

Also unless you plan to use it with Pro Tools there is no need to upgrade.

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John

I could not get the update to work using Sonar midi I used Acid, worked great


1. Make sure your controller is plugged into the computer via MIDI and communicating with your preferred audio software application.

2. Disable the Mackie Control/Logic Control as a midi controller device in the control surface setup section of your audio software application.

3. Disable MTC, MMC, MIDI Clock, MIDI Metronome, or any other MIDI signals being sent by your DAW.


4. Import the MIDI file you just downloaded from the Mackie web site into your audio software application, and make sure the Mackie Control/Logic Control is the target midi device on channel one.

5. Turn off the power of the Mackie Control/Logic Control.

6. Hold down the REC RDY buttons on channels 1 and 2 and the SELECT button on channel 1 as you turn the power on. This will put the Mackie Control/Logic Control into the Boot Loader Mode.

7. Once in the Boot Loader Mode, simply play back the MIDI file in its entirety from your audio software application. While the MIDI file is playing, you should see a series of dots parade across the display. If you do not see the dancing dots, restart at step 1.

8. Once the MIDI file has played through to the end (you'll know when), hit STOP in your audio software application. The controller will restart automatically.

9. Select the desired mode of operation (Mackie Control or Logic Control).

10. Apply the appropriate overlay to the master section – you’re done.




If you want to change the operating modeat any time, here's what you need to do:

1. Turn off the power of the Mackie Control/Logic Control.

2. Hold down the SELECT buttons on channels 1 and 2 as you turn the power on. This will enter the Mackie Control/Logic Control Mode Selection Dialog on the display.

3. Select the desired mode of operation - Mackie Control or Logic Control (or HUI, if the Mackie Control Universal Upgrade was purchased and installed).

4. Apply the appropriate overlay to the master section – you’re done.




Once an operating mode has been selected, the controller will continue to boot up into that mode unless you choose to change the mode of operation as described above.

Did you try the Sonar sysex editor to upload to the MC?

If the file is full of sysex data then Sonar will want to send it via the sysex editor but it won't if you do not use the proper port. In the sysex view there is a colum to the right for the ports. They are not named but are listed as 1 through how many have, If you have 4 ins and outs the ports will show as 1,2,3,4. To change the port you will click the port icon, there a drop down list will show the ports as above.

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John

You can get to it from the view menu. On your search did you try SYSX as your search term?

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John

Using the System Exclusive View

Thanks John. I'm starting to get to know the MIDI aspects of Sonar a little better with your help and some manual and help file reading.

The file from the Mackie site is a MIDI file with what appears to be embedded SYSEX data when I look at it in the Event List View.

I am able to transmit the data to the Mackie Control by playing the file (as instructed by the Mackie readme.txt file) and the Mackie does respond, although not as described in readme.txt file they provided. Also, I do see MIDI activity as I'm transmitting in the MIDI monitor that sits in the task bar. Unfortunately, I now have a totally unusable unit. When I power it up, it has a blank display and I hear a relay clicking and that's it. The only other thing I can get it to do is to come up in MACKIE CONTROL LOADER mode. Not good. Fortunately, I can still work with Sonar with mouse and keyboard, so I'm not out of commission, but I would like to get my MC working again. Any help or advice would be greatly apprecieated.

Nick

I was able to successfully update mcu firmware in sonar by disabling the "sysex bank option" under options/global

unfortunately 3 of the faders are messed up, but thats a hardware problem.

tz

Hola como les va? Me podrían pasar el upgrade para la mackie yo tengo una mackie logic control y necesito el modo HUI para controlar protools.

With the MCU you can only update to version 2.1.2 no higher.  
 
It does update, but it takes several tries be patient.