So you want to glue ZED faders to Logic faders. So far I know this is not reliably (!) possible with Controller Assignments. But it can be done with direct cabling in the environment.
In the example below I used data according to the ZED-16R user manual:
Faders 1-16 send CC 1-16 on channel 16.
If you have other settings, you have to adapt the numbers.
I assume that you haven't done much in the Logic Environment before. Please excuse me if my explanations are too boring fo you.
Open an environment window, go to layer "Click & Ports".
You may remove what you do not need, i.e. the default keyboard object.
Usually the Sum port of the Physical Input goes to the Sequencer Input, to lead all MIDI events to the sequencer which are neither filtered by Controller Assignments, nor have their individual port connected.
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- Optional but recommended: Connect your patch to the individual input port of your ZED mixer. This way you exclude your mixer from the Sum port and it's events do not reach the sequencer (in the screenshot I used my Faderfox controller).
- Insert a monitor to see what is coming in.
- Add one transformer that prepares data for distribution to channelstrips. Filter as good as you can and set what is possible at this stage (makes it easier to set the following transfomers).
- Add another monitor to see the output of the transformer.
- Add the first "distribution-transformer". Set it to "true=>top cable", Condition CC number 1 and Operation CC number 7.
- Duplicate the transformer as often as you need it. Set each Condition CC number according to the target channelstrip (2, 3, 4, 5 ...). Do not connect the transformers yet.
- Now you connect each transformer output to it's target channelstrip: right click at the little output triangle and select the channelstrip in the context menu. Altenatively you may open a second window and draw cables across windows from transformers to channelstrips.
- Finally connect each lower transformer output to the next following transfomer. The order of transformers does not matter, just the correct outputs and the transfomer settings.
Settings of the first transformer, that prepares the stream:
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Settings of the first "distribution-transfomer":
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- With this method, your ZED faders are "hardwired" to your channelstrips.
- As this is an Environment patch, it is not global but belongs to the project. If you want to use it often, save it in a template.
- If you delete a channelstrip, you lose the cable and the following faders/strips do no longer work. While re-constructing, pay attention to the right upper/lower outputs, they are crucial.
- You cannot record automation from the ZED mixer with the example above, you would have to add some stuff fo that.
- The cabling in the example shows how I am used to do it. If you find the patch not clear enough, I can show you a better understandable layout.
If you want to control more channels, use more "distribution-transformers". If you want to process other events like CCs of the ZED's rotary knobs or note events from the ZED's switches, you can connect similar patches to the lower output of the very first filter transformer or to a free output of a monitor. Depends on the filter action you need. For perfomance reasons it is recommended to patch serially and rather avoid parallel paths if possible.