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Using the External Control & Automation tab 
Use the External Control & Automation tab to set up and customize control surfaces. From the Options menu, choose Preferences to 
display the Preferences dialog. Click the External Control & Automation tabFor more information, see 
Note:
 From the Options menu, choose External Control to enable your selected control surfaces. 
Preference 
Description 
Smooth and thin automation 
data after recording or drawing 
When recording automation or drawing envelope curves, ACID software creates as 
many envelope points or keyframes as possible to represent your control 
movements. 
Select this check box if you want to reduce the number of envelope points/ 
keyframes after recording or drawing is finished. 
Set controls to default values
Select this check box if you want controls to return to their default values when set 
when automation is turned off
the track's automation recording mode to Automation Off
.
 Automated effect 
parameters do not have default settings and will retain their last-set values when 
you turn automation off. 
When the check box is cleared, controls will retain their last-set values when you 
turn automation off. 
Available devices
Choose a device from the drop-down list and click Add to choose the control 
surfaces that will be available to ACID software. Adding a device loads its default 
profile. 
For information about configuring specific MIDI controllers, see 
, or 
Active control devices 
Lists the control devices that you’ve added. Double-click a device name to 
customize its behavior. 
Default all
Restores all control surface preferences to the default settings. 
Note:
 You can connect one Mackie Control Universal (with up to four Mackie Control Universal Extenders), one Frontier TranzPort, and 
up to five generic MIDI controllers. 
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
From the Options menu, choose Customize Keyboard to customize the keyboard shortcuts available in the ACID interface.
The Keyboard mapping box displays the currently assigned shortcut keys. Click a tab in the middle of the dialog to choose which
shortcuts you want to see.
Editing or creating new shortcuts 
1. 
Click a tab in the middle of the dialog to indicate the type of command you want to assign to a keyboard shortcut. 
2. 
Select a command in the list. 
Tip: 
You can type a word in the Show commands containing box to filter the list of commands to display only commands that contain 
the word you typed. 
3. 
Click the Shortcut keys box and press the key combination you want to assign to the selected command. 
4. 
Click the Add button to assign the key combination in the Shortcut keys box to the selected command. 
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