Mackie support is available only for ardour 2.0 beta12 or newer. This will walk you through the process of configuring and using Mackie MCU, or a BCF2000 in Logic Control emulation mode.

Make sure your surface is connected and you know which /dev/snd/midi entry belongs to the device. You can do this by saying cat /proc/asound/cards which should result in something like 0 [EWS88MT ]: ICE1712 - TerraTec EWS88MT TerraTec EWS88MT at 0x1140, irq 21 1 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI Virtual MIDI Card 1 2 [BCF2000 ]: USB-Audio - BCF2000 BEHRINGER BCF2000 at usb-0000:00:1a.1-1, full speed in this case the BCF2000 is on /dev/snd/midiC2D0. While ardour is not running, edit your .ardour3/ardour.rc and add at the top, with the other ports: <MIDI-port tag="mcu" device="/dev/snd/midiC2D0" type="alsa/raw" mode="duplex"/> If you have a BCF2000, and you'd like to use BCF mode, you can also add under the <Config> tag: <Option name="mackie-emulation" value="bcf"/> It is also possible to add MCU extenders, although this is untested because nobody we know has access to one right now. To do this, add the following lines to ~/.ardour3/ardour.rc <MIDI-port tag="mcu_xt_1" device="/dev/snd/midiC3D0" type="alsa/raw" mode="duplex"/> <MIDI-port tag="mcu_xt_2" device="/dev/snd/midiC4D0" type="alsa/raw" mode="duplex"/> and so on, one for each of your extenders, up to a maximum of 9 extenders.

Start up ardour. Go to Options/Control Surfaces. You should see "Mackie" as one of the menu items. Turn it on. The faders on the surface should jump to the correct positions. The mackie should work as normal, except that any buttons not on the BCF won't work.

7 of the 8 sliders are used as route sliders, the remaining right-hand one is used for the master slider certain buttons have been remapped from the default Behringer settings, which required either both hands, or one-handed contortions to do simple things like rec-enable or mute a track. The display shows the number of the first switched-in bank or Ar if the first bank is in place. BCF mode bindings Strips 1-7 Master Strip Buttons pan / solo if pressed transport Making a pot pretend to be a shuttle wheel doesn't work very well. / global solo LCD display mute mute shift 1 loop shift 1: marker shift 2: punch in rec session rec shift 2 click shift 2: punch out slider slider rewind ffwd home end previous bank shift 1: previous route next bank shift 1: next route previous marker next marker stop play