BANK LSB
CH 16
BANK MSB
PROG DIR
CH 16

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4.2.8 Program and bank change

You have three different options achieving a program change in external devices with the UMX. This is a very powerful function, which will enable you to use the full spectrum of all of your sound producers. Options a) and b) will allow you to select any programs by means of a defined selection procedure, which always has to be completed. The process is generally accelerated in the third option c), so that you will be able to directly select programs by pressing the push-button once.

a)If you are sure that you want to select from 128 different programs only, you will achieve the ASSIGN mode program change by the following method. As soon as the quantity of 128 is exceeded, however, you must apply the process described under paragraph b).

1)Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.

2) Press one of the 16 white channel keys CH 1

throughon the keyboard. You have now defined the channel by which the program change will be transmitted.

3)Release the ASSIGN push-button.

4)Press the PROGRAM key.

5)Press the number keys in sequence until you have completely entered the desired program number. Only value entries between 0 and 127 are possible. Greater values are ignored by the device.

Examples:

- Press 1 and 5 if you have decided on program 15, for example.
- Press

1

,

2

and

7

if you would like to
select program 127.

 

 

 

 

6)Press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

b)If you have more than 128 programs, you must apply the following process to achieve a program change. In this case, your programs will be organized in banks which are activated by a special MIDI command: the BANK SELECT command. In the following section, this command is briefly described. A brief introduction for this is listed in the following:

The BANK SELECT command consists of two parts: an MSB part and an LSB part.

The MSB part describes a value range of 128 different values and is the more important part of the DATA BASE SELECT command for many external devices.

The LSB part describes each of the 128 MSBs in another128 individual stages. Both are individually numbered from0 to 127.

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The enormous value range of a total of 128 x 128 = 16,384 different values is therefore available to you via the BANK SELECT command. This theoretically means that you could use external devices which support the same amount of different banks.

If you consider that each of these banks again contains another 128 individual programs, you will receive the unbelievably large number of 2,097,152 different options to organize these programs.

1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.

2) Press one of the 16 channel keys

CH 1

through

CH 16 , or press the GLOBAL key.

 

3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.

4) Press thekey. Then press the number keys in sequence until you have completely entered the desired BANK MSB number. Only value entries between 0 and 127 are possible. Greater values are ignored by the device.

The BANK MSB has now been defined.

Examples:

- Press 1 and 4 if you have decided on MSB 14, for example.

- Press

1

,

0

and

7

if you would like to

select MSB 107.

 

 

 

 

 

5) Now define the by pressing the key. Then enter the number value of the BANK LSB with the already familiar procedure (see step 4). The same entry rules apply as for the BANK MSB.

You have defined the bank in which the desired program will be called up in steps 4 and 5. Now all you have to define is the program itself:

6) Press the PROGRAM key and then press the number keys in sequence until you have completely entered the desired program number. Only entries between 0 and 127 are possible, greater values are ignored by the device. Ready!

7)Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

Example:

You want to select preset No. 49 in bank 25 of an external device on channel 14 via the UMX. Only the LSB will be used to describe the bank, since the bank number remains less than 128. The MSB in this case equals 0.

1) Press and hold the ASSIGN push-button.2) Press the channel key CH 14 .

3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.

4)

Then, press the

BANK MSB key or the

0

key

5)

Press BANK LSB

key and then describe bank 25 with

 

push-buttons

2

and

5

.

 

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6) Define the program: Press the PROGRAM key and then
the

4

and

9

keys for program 49.
7)Press the ENTER key.c)Direct program selection through the two OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons.

1)Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.

2)Select the OCTAVE SHIFT push-button which you want to assign to the program change function.

3)Release the ASSIGN push-button again.

4)Defined the channel by which the program change will be transmitted. Press one of the 16 channel keys

CH 1 throughon the keyboard.

5) Press thekey. Then press the number keys on the keyboard in sequence until you have completely entered the desired preset number. Only value entries between 0 and 127 are possible. Greater values are ignored by the device.

6)Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, please select the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

◊As soon as you have assigned the direct program selection to one or both OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons simultaneously, pressing both push-buttons will not activate ANYTHING!

4.2.9 Other functions of the OCTAVE SHIFT buttons

The OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons of the device are in their initial state every time the UMX is switched on (see Table 3.1). Further special functions can be assigned to both push-buttons in the ASSIGN mode in addition to the already covered functions regarding direct program change and octave transposition:

a)Transposition in individual semitone stepsb)Sequential scrolling in program librariesc)Optional controller functions

◊As soon as you assign a function to one of the two push- buttons, the second push-button will automatically assume the same function, however, it is still restricted in its functionality. It is not capable of sending data until you assign a function to this push-button with the ASSIGN procedure.

a)Transposition in individual semitone steps

1)Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.

2)Press the TRANSP +/- key.

3)Release the ASSIGN push-button.

4)Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

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Pressing the right hand one of the two push-buttons causes a shift by one semitone upward pressing the left hand one leads to a shift by one semitone downward. Pressing both push-buttons cancels all transpositions.

◊A keyboard can consist of a maximum of 128 semitones according to the MIDI standard. If you have reached the lower or upper end of this tone range with the transposition function, you cannot exceed the highest or lowest tone despite continued pressing of the transposition push-button. This also applies to the transposition in octave steps.

b) Sequential scrolling in program libraries.

Most sound producers have the option to store presets in a separate bank (frequently called a User Bank). If the sequence of songs to be played at a concert is defined by your band, you can store all of the sounds used for the gig in the User Bank in the sequence they occur in the concert and completely concentrate on your playing. A cumbersome search for sounds in the sound producers is no longer required thanks to the OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons.

1)Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.

2)Press the PROG +/- key.

3)Release the ASSIGN push-button.

4)Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

Pressing the right hand one of the two push-buttons now causes your external device to switch one preset number upward to be switched upward in your external device; pressing the left hand causes a step downward in your preset library. By pressing both push-buttons you jump to Preset 0 in the current bank.

Please note that you must assign an individual MIDI channel to the OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons if you do not want to work in the GLOBAL CHANNEL (refer to Chapter 4.2.2).

◊In case of the stepwise search function, the channel assignment always affects both the push-buttons. The assignment of a separate channel to one of the 2 push- buttons is not supported.

c) Optional controller functions

Please note that the OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons generate switch controllers in the event of a controller assignment. One of the two values 0 or 127 will always be produced.

◊There are two exceptions: if you assign controller CC 07 (Channel Volume) to the OCTAVE SHIFT push-buttons, pressing one of the push-buttons will always generate the value 0. In case of controller CC 10 (panning), pressing a push-button will always produce the value 64.

◊Please note that pressing both push-buttons simultaneously does not generate anything when assigning a controller.

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