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Jester Operating Manual MIDI Control
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MIDI Control
MIDI and the Jester
The Jester is designed only to receive MIDI information. It cannot transmit MIDI
information to another device, although a ‘THRU’ port is provided to allow daisy
chaining. The Jester uses two types of MIDI information – MIDI Notes, and MIDI
Show Control (MSC).
You can disable all MIDI control completely by setting MIDI to <Disabled> in Super
User. This is the default value, so if MIDI does not function, check that it is Enabled
first. Note that due to internal resource limitations on the r2 hardware, a USB
Keyboard cannot be used when MIDI is enabled.
MIDI Notes – Getting Started
Before using MIDI, you must first activate it in Super User. To do this, press and hold
SHIFT and MODE, then navigate to the <MIDI Setup> option and press ENTER, then
toggle the <Disabled> to read <Enabled>.
Once MIDI is activated, plug in a MIDI cable from a MIDI instrument to the MIDI ‘IN’
socket and set the Jester to Preset mode. Any note played on the MIDI instrument
will turn a channel on.
If this doesn’t work, go into Super User and perform a desk reset (to clear all settings
to default), then re-activate MIDI.
MIDI Notes – Transmit and Receive Channels
MIDI instruments send a stream of Note On and Note Off messages from their ‘OUT’
port using Transmit channels numbered 1 to 16. By setting the Receive channel on
the Jester, only the Note messages that are wanted will be received. Alternatively,
the Receive channel may be set to all channels <--> so that any MIDI Note
information transmitted will be received.
MIDI Notes – Note Numbers
MIDI assigns ‘Note Numbers’ to musical notes. Middle C is note 60. By default,
octaves are mapped to the 12 presets/submasters (there are 12 notes in a MIDI
octave since it includes both the black and white notes on a piano keyboard).
However, this setting can be changed so that a specific MIDI Note is mapped to the
first preset /submaster.
When MIDI is set to map octaves, the maximum number of presets / submasters that
can be controlled is 12. When a MIDI note number is set, the maximum number of
presets / submasters that can be controlled is limited by the desk size:
Jester12/24: 24 presets in Preset Mode or 12 submasters in Run Mode.
Jester24/48: 48 presets in Preset Mode or 24 submasters in Run Mode.
When controlling submasters in Run Mode, the action of MIDI is the same as raising
the submaster fader on the desk, therefore you can only output submasters from the