Assign Mode; Setting The Global Channel; Individual Channel Assignment; Global Channel Assignment - Behringer U-Control UMX490 User Manual

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4.2

ASSIGN mode

As already mentioned in previous chapters, the ASSIGN Mode is a powerful tool to
optionally reconfigure 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 offer you more
detailed information to enable you to use the UMX even more efficiently.
4.2.1

Setting the GLOBAL CHANNEL

The UMX recognizes two separate classifications 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 Off commands. To change this channel, proceed as follows:
1) Press the ASSIGN button and hold it down.
2) Press the key.
CH SELECT
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4) Define the GLOBAL CHANNEL by operating one of the keys
through on the keyboard.
CH 16
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 off in all 3 cases.
The factory setting for the GLOBAL CHANNEL is channel 1.
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4.2.2

Individual channel assignment

The assignment of individual control elements to defined 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 filter 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 filter frequency.
1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and
2) Activate the control element, for which another channel than the GLOBAL
CHANNEL is to be set. If this is a controller or fader, briefly 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
ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments,
5) Finally, press the
please select the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again.
The ASSIGN LED will go off 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!
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CH 1
hold it down.
through .
CH 1 CH 16
4.2.3

GLOBAL CHANNEL assignment

1) Press the ASSIGN push-button and
2) Activate the control element for which the GLOBAL CHANNEL is to be set.
If this is a controller or fader, briefly 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 key.
GLOBAL
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 off 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,
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
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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
2) Press the key on the keyboard.
SNAP SEND
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button. The device automatically returns to the
normal play mode.
The SNAPSHOT command is transmitted immediately after activating
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the keyboard.
4.2.6

Local Off

The LOCAL OFF in the UMX has the effect 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
2) Press the key.
LOCAL OFF
3) Release the ASSIGN push-button again and complete the desired settings on
the control elements.
ENTER key or the CANCEL key. The LED of the ASSIGN key
4) Then, press the
goes off in both cases and you are in normal play mode again.
hold it down.
or .
RESET ALL NOTES OFF
hold it down.
hold it down.