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U-CONTROL UMX250 User Manual

 

3. Control elements and connections

Fig. 3.1: Top view

The following factory settings refer to GLOBAL MIDI channel 1.

3) Release the ASSIGN button.

{1}. The keyboard of the UMX250: 25 large, velocity-sensitive keys for

4)Depending on the choice you made, you may have to

maximum playing comfort. The keyboard not only provides for

define an additional value range (see below for more

playing, but also functions as an encoder in the context of the

details).

assignment procedure.

5) Press the ENTER button on the keyboard to confirm your

{2}. The MODULATION wheel functions ex works as a conventional

assignments. To discard your assignments either press the

modulation wheel (MIDI CC 1). In ASSIGN mode, any MIDI control-

CANCEL button or the ASSIGN button again. In either

ler can be assigned to it. When you release the MODULATION

case, the ASSIGN LED goes out and the UMX250 quits

wheel, it retains its adjusted value.

ASSIGN mode.

{3}. The PITCH BEND wheel is normally used to change the pitch in

{6}. The USER MEMORY button is used to recall the internal memory.

real time. In this way, a sound can be “bent” upwards/downwards

The internal memory contains all assignment information set in

by several semitones while playing. The specific amount of pitch

ASSIGN mode. Any changes that were made after USER MEMORY

bending applied to a sound can be set on the device controlled by

selection are automatically saved without further user prompts. The

the UMX250.

USER MEMORY is retained even after the unit is switched off.

{4}. Ex works, the VOLUME/DATA fader controls the volume of the

{7}. The two OCTAVE SHIFT buttons are preset to shift the keyboard

notes played on the keyboard (MIDI CC 7). In ASSIGN mode, it can

range by several octaves up or down. The associated LEDs help you

be set to control any MIDI controller.

identify the current octave setting (see Table 3.1). Since the

{5}. The ASSIGN button allows you to assign different functions to the

OCTAVE SHIFT buttons can also be assigned to any MIDI

various control elements.

controller, we would like to refer you to Chapters 4.2.8 and 4.2.9 for

The basic principle is always the same:

detailed information.

1) Press the ASSIGN button and keep it pressed. The status

{8}. The eight high-resolution rotary controls R1 – R8 generate

LED above the button lights up. The UMX250 signals that

continuous controller information. They are the controllers that are

it has entered ASSIGN mode.

shown above the buttons in the table (10). All rotary controllers can be

2) Select the control element to which you would like to

assigned to any controller in ASSIGN mode.

assign a new MIDI function by operating it.