Enabling a MIDI Control Surface in Pro Tools

To enable a MIDI control surface in Pro Tools:

1 Choose Setup > Peripherals and click the MIDI Controllers tab.

2 Choose your MIDI control surface device name from the Type pop-up menu.

3 Choose the MIDI control surface’s source port from the Receive From pop-up menu.

4 Choose a destination port from the Send To pop-up menu.

5 If your MIDI control surface has more than eight channel strips, or if you are using multiple devices of the same type in series, choose the appropriate number of channel strips from the pop-up menu under #Ch’s.

 

MIDI control surface (Command|8) enabled

6 Click OK.

You can configure additional MIDI control surfaces (up to a total of four) by repeating the above steps. Make sure that none of the control surfaces are assigned to the same MIDI source and destination ports or channels in the Pro Tools Peripherals dialog.