U-CONTROL UMA25S
Foreword
Dear Customer,
Welcome to the team of BEHRINGER users, and thank you very much for expressing your con- fidence in us by purcha- sing this device.
Writing this foreword for you gives me great pleasure, because it re- presents the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to achieve a very ambitious goal: to present an outstanding keyboard which, thanks to its flexibility, can be used as audio interface as
well as MIDI controller. The task of designing our new UMA25S certainly meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together. What a great feeling it is when all who participated in such a project can be proud of what they’ve achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we manage to produce such high- quality devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers mean large sales volumes, enabling us to get better purchasing terms for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit on to you? Because we know that your success is our success, too!
I would like to thank everyone who has made the UMA25S possible. You have all made your own personal contributions, from the developers and the many other employees at this company to you, the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, it’s been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
Table of contents
1. Introduction | 5 | ||
1.1 | Before you get started | 5 | |
| 1.1.1 | Shipment | 5 |
| 1.1.2 | Initial operation | 5 |
| 1.1.3 | Online registration | 6 |
| 1.1.4 | Product contents | 6 |
1.2 | System requirements | 6 | |
1.3 | Hardware configuration | 6 | |
| 1.3.1 | 7 | |
| 1.3.2 | USB mode (default) | 7 |
2. Software Installation | 8 | |
2.1 Driver installation | 8 | |
2.1.1 | Windows XP MIDI driver | 8 |
2.1.2 | Windows XP audio driver | 8 |
2.2 Music software | 8 | |
2.2.1 | Music production | 8 |
2.2.2 | Instruments and effects | 8 |
2.2.3 | Podcasting software | 8 |
3. Control elements and connections | 9 | |
4. The UMA25S as audio interface | 10 | |
5. The UMA25S as USB/MIDI controller | 11 | |
5.1 Presets | 11 | |
5.1.1 | Loading presets | 11 |
5.1.2 | Storing presets | 11 |
5.1.3 | Restoring default presets | 11 |
5.2 | 11 | |
5.2.1 | Changing the velocity curve | 12 |
5.2.2 | The Octave and Transpose functions | 12 |
5.2.3 | The MMC function | 13 |
5.2.4 | The Panic function | 13 |
5.2.5 | The Mute function | 13 |
5.3 Assignment of control elements using the Learn |
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function | 13 | |
5.4 Assignment of control messages in Edit Mode | 13 | |
5.5 MIDI Messages | 14 | |
5.5.1 Program Change and MIDI Bank Select | 14 | |
5.5.2 | Control Changes | 15 |
5.5.3 NRPN | 15 | |
5.5.4 Note messages | 16 | |
5.5.5 | Pitch Bend | 16 |
5.5.6 | After Touch | 16 |
5.5.7 MIDI Machine Control (MMC) | 17 | |
5.5.8 GS/XG parameters | 17 | |
5.5.9 | Using keys as control elements | 17 |
5.6 More functions in Edit Mode | 17 | |
5.6.1 | Show Element function | 17 |
5.6.2 | Channel Array function | 18 |
5.6.3 | Channel Assign function | 18 |
5.6.4 Snapshot Send (Send TX) | 19 | |
5.6.5 | Sending a Notes Off message | 19 |
5.6.6 | Action Send function | 19 |
5.7 Settings in Global Mode | 19 | |
6. Specifications | 21 | |
7. Appendix | 22 | |
8. Warranty | 27 | |
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