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U-CONTROL UMX49/UMX61
4. OPERATION
4.2 THE ASSIGN MODE
As already mentioned in previous chapters, the ASSIGN Mode
is a powerful tool to optionally reconfigure the UMX into an ultra-
comfortable controller.
The basic logic of the allocation process has been introduced
to you in chapter „3 Control elements“. In the following we will
offer you more detailed information to enable you to use the UMX
even more efficiently.
4.2.1 Setting the GLOBAL CHANNEL
The UMX recognizes two separate classifications in regard to
MIDI channels. There is a GLOBAL CHANNEL and 15 additional
SINGLE CHANNELs.
The GLOBAL MIDI CHANNEL is the channel through which all
MIDI commands are sent in the factory setting: messages by
various control elements, as well as the Note On and Note Off
commands. To change this channel, proceed as follows:
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Press the key.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Define the GLOBAL CHANNEL by operating one of the
keys through on the keyboard.
5) Finally, press the key. In order to discard your
assignments, please press the key or press the
ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off
in all 3 cases.
The factory setting for the GLOBAL CHANNEL is
channel 1.
4.2.2 The individual channel assignment
The assignment of individual control elements to defined
channels is useful if you want to control several external devices
independently from each other.
Example:
You are playing synthesizer A through channel 2 with the
keyboard and have a sequencer program controlling another
synthesizer B through channel 5. You can now control the filter
frequency of device B through one of the eight jog/shuttle
controls in real time and simultaneously continue to play device A
without changing the filter frequency.
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Activate the control element, for which another channel
than the GLOBAL CHANNEL is to be set. If this is a controller
or fader, briefly move the control element; when you have
decided on a push-button, press this push-button once.
The UMX now "knows" to which control element you would
like to assign a SINGLE CHANNEL.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Press one of the 16 channel keys through
.
5) Finally, press the key. In order to discard your
assignments, please select the key or press the
ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in
all 3 cases.
All control elements of the UMX follow the GLOBAL
CHANNEL in their channel settings (factory settings).
This means that a control element is always in the
GLOBAL CHANNEL until you assign it to another
channel. Please also consider this when you change
the GLOBAL CHANNEL, since various elements will
also change accordingly!
4.2.3 Assigning the GLOBAL CHANNELs:
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Activate the control element for which the GLOBAL
CHANNEL is to be set. If this is a controller or fader, briefly
move the control element; when you have decided on a
push-button, press this push-button once. The UMX now
"knows" to which control element you would like to assign
a GLOBAL CHANNEL.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Press the key.
5) Finally, press the key. In order to discard your
assignments, please press the key or press the
ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off
in all 3 cases.
4.2.4 The PANIC key combination
Imagine that you have been working continuously on one song
for several hours and a note suddenly "hangs up". If you now
execute a PANIC command, a sound producing device receiving
this command becomes silent immediately.
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Press one of the two keys or .
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button. The device will
automatically return to the normal play mode.
The command "All Notes Off" will be sent
immediately after you have pressed one of the two
keys.
4.2.5 The SNAPSHOT SEND command
The SNAPSHOT command triggers the transmission of all
parameters including their current values. All control element
assignments as well as their temporary settings on the respective
channels are transmitted to the MIDI OUT socket and to the USB
output of the UMX.
It is possible by this method to transfer the complete UMX
mapping to a sequencer software at the beginning of a song.
This is to make sure the song is played with the last valid controller
values. Apart from this, the SNAPSHOT allows you to reset the
correct values in an external device where parameters have
shifted.
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Press the push-button on the keyboard.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button. The device automatically
returns to the normal play mode.
The SNAPSHOT command is transmitted
immediately after activating the keyboard.
4.2.6 LOCAL OFF in the UMX
The LOCAL OFF in the UMX has the effect that value entries
made via the control elements are neither transmitted to the MIDI
OUT socket nor to the USB OUT. It is therefore possible in the
LOCAL OFF mode, for example, to readjust the rotary controls
without transmitting data to the generally selected external
devices.
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2) Press the key.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button again and complete the
desired settings on the control elements.
4) Then, press the key or the key. The LED
of the ASSIGN key goes off in both cases and you are in
normal play mode again.
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