User's Manual

3.8. Changing the Global Settings
The Device Settings section of MCC lets you alter some of the global settings of the KeyLab
Essential. Let’s take a closer look at what each parameter does:
• User MIDI Channel: This changes the default MIDI channel output for KeyLab
Essential from 1 to 16.
• Vegas Mode: When KeyLab Essential is left idle and untouched for around 5
minutes, it will begin an eye-catching, colorful light show. You can choose to
Enable or Disable this as you see fit.
• DAW Mode: This parameter lets you toggle the control language used by the DAW
Command Center between Mackie and HUI. Depending on your DAW of choice,
you may wish to change this setting to ensure maximum functionality of KeyLab
Essential in your recording software.
• DAW Fader Mode: This setting changes how KeyLab Essential’s faders react
within your recording software. The two modes available are:
◦ Pickup: the faders in your DAW will gradually move to match the
current position of the fader on your controller as it moves.
◦ Jump: the fader in your DAW will jump immediately to the current
position of the fader on your controller as soon as it is moved, and
follow its movement from there.
• Keys Velocity Curve & Pads Velocity Curve: These parameters lets you alter the
response of KeyLab Essential’s keyboard and performance pads.
◦ Lin: Linear - provides a balanced response where the strength of your
key and pad strikes is equally matched to the MIDI velocity output.
◦ Log: Logarithmic - shifts the focus of the MIDI velocity output to being
softer, making it harder to strike the higher velocities and giving you
a wider range of articulation in the softer and central velocities.
◦ Exp: Exponential - shifts the focus of the MIDI velocity output to being
harder, making it harder to strike the softer velocities and giving you
a wider range of articulation in the central and hard velocities.
◦ Full: Forces the MIDI velocity to always output at 127, the maximum
value.
You can also Import and Export these settings, letting you save time by quickly setting all of
the global parameters at once.
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