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Fader Buttons and Pads LED behavior
Whether you are using any of the LED fader buttons or the 8 pads to send out a MIDI message, the LED behavior works the same way. We
already covered how the LED pads respond to MIDI feedback on page 12 but we present the information here again because it‘s relevant
to Assignment Types.
MIDI cc: The pad illuminates depending on which value is sent. Value = 0 switch off the LED. If the value is between 1 and 126, the color is
green and if value = 127 the color is red.
MIDI cc feedback: If your DAW is capable of responding relatively to a MIDI cc message (i.e ignore the value sent), a status message can
be sent from the DAW to activate the pad LED. To set that up, the pad‘s Data 1 and Data 2 values need to be the same (see Setup, page 14
about programming Data 1 and Data 2 values) and your DAW can then send status values to illuminate the pad as follows: Value = 0 switch
off the LED. If the value is between 1 and 126, the color is green. If value = 127 the color is red.
Example: Program a pad to send MIDI cc 45 and set both Data 1 and Data 2 to 0. Set your DAW up to return MIDI cc 45 to activate the LED.
Depending on the value sent from the DAW, the pad will be off, green or red.
Program (Orange): All pad LEDs are off except one that corresponds with the last sent MIDI Program message. The active pad is illumina-
ted Orange. This enables you to always see at a glance which MIDI Program is active.
Global MIDI Channel select (Yellow): If a button or pad has been assigned to send the Global MIDI Channel select message type , the LED
will only illuminate when the actual Global MIDI Channel = the button‘s programmed Global MIDI Channel.
This means that if you press the button, it will set the Global MIDI Channel to what the button was programmed to and the button will
illuminate yellow. If the Global MIDI Channel is subsequently set either by pressing a button or pad that has been assigned to select a
different MIDI channel or any of the other two options to change the Global MIDI Channel, the LED will turn off.
If you primarily want to use for example the 8 LED buttons to select the Global MIDI channel, it means that only the button corresponding
to the current channel will be illuminated yellow. The others will be off.