Behringer U-CONTROL UMX61 user manual Setting the Global Channel, Individual channel assignment

U-CONTROL UMX49/UMX61

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!

4.2.3Assigning 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.

4.2.4The 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.

4.2.6LOCAL 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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