User guide

Chapter 4: Advanced Keyboard Functions
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Axiom User Guide
Channel Assign (Chan Assign)
The Channel Assign function (CHAN ASGN) assigns the active Axiom control to a specific MIDI channel.
To assign a knob, fader, button or pedal jack to a MIDI channel:
1 Select the active control as described in the next section, “Control Select (Ctrl Select)” on page 19.
2 Press the Edit button.
3 Press the Channel Assign key. The LCD screen will display the current parameter (“CHAN), the currently
selected control (for example “E1”), and the current MIDI channel (for example “1”).
4 Enter the new MIDI channel number using the number keys.
5 Press the Enter key.
When assigned to channel “0,” the control will transmit on the Global MIDI Channel. For more information,
refer to the next section, “Global Channel.”
When numbers 17 – 20 are entered the control will send MIDI data on one of the four Channels used by
keyboard Zones, z1 – z4, as shown in the following table. For further instructions on assigning a MIDI channel
to a Zone, see “Zone Channel (Zone Chan)” on page 17.
Keyboard Entry LCD Display Keyboard Zone
17 z1 Zone 1
18 z2 Zone 2
19 z3 Zone 3
20 z4 Zone 4
When a control is assigned to send SysEx messages, the displayed number represents the SysEx Device ID
instead of the MIDI transmit channel number. For more information about SysEx messages, refer to
Chapter 7, “MIDI Messages Defined.” A complete list of assignable SysEx messages can be found in
Appendix B, “Assignable MIDI CC’s.”