User's Manual

8 U-CONTROL UMX610/UMX490 User Manual
4.2 Assign mode
As already mentioned in previous chapters, the ASSIGN Mode is a powerful tool to
optionally recongure the UMX into an ultra-comfortable controller.
The basic logic of the allocation process has been introduced to you in Chapter3
“Control Elements and Connections”. In the following we will oer you more
detailed information to enable you to use the UMX even more eciently.
4.2.1 Setting the global channel
The UMX recognizes two separate classications in regard to MIDI channels.
Thereis a GLOBAL CHANNEL and 16 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 O commands. To change this channel, proceed as follows:
1) Press the ASSIGN button and hold it down.
2) Press the
CH SELECT
key.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Dene the GLOBAL CHANNEL by operating one of the keys ( CH 1 ) through
( CH 16 ) on the keyboard.
5) 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 o in all 3 cases.
◊ The factory setting for the GLOBAL CHANNEL is channel 1.
4.2.2 Individual channel assignment
The assignment of individual control elements to dened 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 lter 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 lter 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, briey move the
control element; when you have decided on a push-button, press this push-
button once. The UMX now “knows” which control element you would like to
assign to a SINGLE CHANNEL.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Press one of the 16 channel keys ( CH 1 ) through ( CH 16 ).
5) 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 o 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!
4.2.3 Global channel assignment
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, briey 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 ( GLOBAL ) key.
5) 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 o in all 3 cases.
4.2.4 The 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 PANIC keys,
RESET ALL
or
NOTES OFF
.
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
SNAP SEND
key 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.
4.2.6 Local o
The LOCAL OFF in the UMX has the eect 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 read just 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
LOCAL OFF
key.
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button again and complete the desired settings on
the control elements.
4) Then, press the ENTER key or the CANCEL key. The LED of the ASSIGN key
goes o in both cases and you are in normal play mode again.