User`s manual

ARTURIA – MiniLab – USER’S MANUAL 5
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1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 7
2 MINILAB OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 FIRST STEP: MAKING THE CONNECTIONS ................................................................................................. 8
2.2 FRONT PANEL OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.2.1 Keyboard ........................................................................................................................................ 9
2.2.2 Pitch and Modulation touch strips ................................................................................................ 10
2.2.3 Shift and Pad Bank buttons ........................................................................................................... 10
2.2.4 Octave buttons .............................................................................................................................. 10
2.2.5 Parameter control encoders ......................................................................................................... 11
2.2.6 The pads / preset buttons .............................................................................................................. 11
2.3 SIDE PANEL OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................... 12
2.4 REAR PANEL OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 12
3 USING MINILAB WITH ANALOG LAB ............................................................................................... 13
3.1 AUDIO & MIDI SETUP ........................................................................................................................... 13
3.1.1 Audio setup ................................................................................................................................... 13
3.1.2 MIDI setup .................................................................................................................................... 14
3.2 SELECTING PRESETS .............................................................................................................................. 14
3.2.1 The Analog Lab “Preset” ............................................................................................................. 14
3.2.1.1 Selecting Presets in Analog Lab: Shift + Down/Up .................................................................................. 14
3.2.1.2 Selecting Presets in Analog Lab: Knob 9 .................................................................................................. 15
3.2.2 Selecting MiniLab Presets 1-8 ...................................................................................................... 15
3.3 SETUP .................................................................................................................................................... 15
3.4 USING THE KNOBS ................................................................................................................................. 15
3.5 USING THE PADS.................................................................................................................................... 16
3.5.1 Play a Chord ................................................................................................................................. 16
3.5.2 Select a Snapshot .......................................................................................................................... 17
4 MIDI CONTROL CENTER ...................................................................................................................... 18
4.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: MIDI CONTROL CENTER ............................................................................... 18
4.1.1 REQUIRED MINIMUM CONFIGURATION: .............................................................................. 18
4.1.2 PLATFORM SPECIFICATIONS: ................................................................................................. 18
4.2 INSTALLING THE MINILAB MIDI CONTROL CENTER SOFTWARE ........................................................... 18
4.3 LAUNCHING THE MIDI CONTROL CENTER ............................................................................................ 19
4.3.1 The virtual keyboard and its controls ........................................................................................... 19
4.3.2 The Global and Selected Control Parameter sections .................................................................. 20
4.4 CHANGING MIDI SETTINGS ................................................................................................................... 20
4.4.1 Global parameters ........................................................................................................................ 20
4.4.2 Selected Control parameters......................................................................................................... 20
4.4.2.1 Settings for the Encoders .......................................................................................................................... 22
4.4.2.2 Settings for the Pads .................................................................................................................................. 23
4.4.2.3 Settings for the Pitch Strip ........................................................................................................................ 24
4.4.2.4 Settings for the Modulation Strip .............................................................................................................. 24
4.4.2.5 Settings for the Pedal ................................................................................................................................ 25
4.4.3 Send your settings to the keyboard ............................................................................................... 25
4.4.4 Restoring the default values .......................................................................................................... 25
4.4.5 Saving settings to the computer .................................................................................................... 26
4.4.6 Loading settings from the computer ............................................................................................. 26
5 USING MINILAB WITH OTHER SOFTWARE ................................................................................... 27
5.1 CREATING MIDI PRESETS WITH THE MIDI CONTROL CENTER ............................................................. 27
5.1.1 Overview: What is a MiniLab Preset? .......................................................................................... 27
5.1.2 Assign a Pad to Start / Stop MMC ................................................................................................ 27
5.1.2.1 Select the Pad Mode .................................................................................................................................. 27
5.1.2.2 Set the MMC Message number ................................................................................................................. 28
5.1.3 Assign a couple of Pads to MIDI notes ......................................................................................... 29
5.1.3.1 Select the MIDI note number: Kick .......................................................................................................... 29
5.1.3.2 Set the MIDI velocity values ............................................................................ Erreur ! Signet non défini.