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Settings
• MIDI-in Monitor: The MIDI-in Monitor is a useful tool to use if needing to verify if the
COBALT5S is receiving MIDI messages. It will display the data of any MIDI message that
COBALT5S can respond to and will ignore the current MIDI channel and filter settings.
The MIDI monitor will provide the following information for each received message:
Source - USB or DIN
Message type - Note-on (NOn”), Note-off (“NOf”), Control Change (“CC”), Program
Change (“PC”), Channel Aftertouch (“CAt”), Pitch bend (“PB”), System Exclusive (“Sys”),
Clock Start (“Srt”), Clock Continue (“Con”), Clock Stop (“Stp”)
Channel
Message data / values
Incoming clock timing messages are displayed in the top right corner of the screen, where
a “U” indicates it is receiving USB clock messages and a “D” indicates it is receiving DIN
clock messages.
Please note that it will only display messages that are received whilst the MIDI Monitor
screen is being displayed.
Press the ‘Edit’ switch to exit the MIDI Monitor.
Keyboard
• Local: Enables / disables the internal keyboard’s connection with the internal sound
engine. If you are using COBALT5S with an external sequencer you may need to set the
Local setting to ‘Off’ to eliminate the double-triggering of notes caused by MIDI loops /
echoes.
• Velocity Curve: Sets the velocity curve / sensitivity for notes from the internal keyboard.
There are three curve options - Light, Normal and Heavy. Select ‘Light’ if you play keys
lightly but would like the device to respond as though they were played harder; select
‘Heavy’ if you play keys heavily but would like the device to respond as though they were
played lighter.
• Aftertouch Curve: Sets the aftertouch curve / sensitivity for the internal keyboard. There
are five curve options - Very Light, Light, Normal, Heavy, Very Heavy. Select ‘Light’ or
‘Very Light’ if you want more control over the upper range of values of the aftertouch
response; or select ‘Heavy’ or ‘Very Heavy’ if you want more control over the lower range
of values of the aftertouch response.
Settings
Sequencer
• Metronome: Enables / disables the metronome click track for sequence recording. Please
note that the sequencer pre-roll (if enabled) will always contain the metronome.
• Pre-Roll: Sets the sequence recording pre-roll length to determine how many bars of the
metronome click track you hear before the recording starts.
Note: Metronome and Pre-Roll are only available for realtime sequences
• Quantise: Sets the sequencer note recording input quantise value to ensure that played
notes can be kept in time. Please note that this is an input quantise setting and therefore
cannot be used to adjust previously recorded notes.
• Transport: Enables / disables the sequencer transport to be controlled by MIDI Clock
Start / Continue / Stop messages from USB-MIDI. You may want to disable this behaviour
if using COBALT5S with an external MIDI sequencer.
Screen
• Brightness: Sets the brightness / contrast of the COBALT5S screen.
• Switch: Sets the screen ‘Page Switch’ / ‘Context Sensitivity’ mode to determine how the
screen responds to certain panel control interactions and MIDI-in messages.
There are three main Page Switch modes - Regular, Smart, Off; and the first two modes
contain three sub modes - All, Panel, MIDI.
The ‘Regular’ mode causes the screen to switch to the page of the adjusted parameter
and stay on the page until another parameter is adjusted; the ‘Smart’ mode causes the
screen to switch to the page of the adjusted parameter but then switch back to the
previous page after two seconds, where the ‘previous’ page will be the page accessed via
either the screen ‘Page / Param’ control, the Patch / Seq button, or the FX1 + FX2 + FX3
button combination.
The sub-mode of each mode sets the parameter source - the panel, MIDI-in, or both.
• Saver: Sets the idle time for the screen’s screensaver. A smaller time will increase the
lifetime of the screen.