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Behringer UB-Xa User Manual

Classic analog 16-voice multi-timbral polyphonic synthesizer with 8 vintage modes, dual vcfs and 61-key poly after-touch keyboard
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UB-Xa
Classic Analog 16-Voice Multi-Timbral Polyphonic Synthesizer with
8 Vintage Modes, Dual VCFs and 61-Key Poly After-Touch Keyboard
V 1.0

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  • Page 1 User Manual UB-Xa Classic Analog 16-Voice Multi-Timbral Polyphonic Synthesizer with 8 Vintage Modes, Dual VCFs and 61-Key Poly After-Touch Keyboard V 1.0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    UB-Xa User Manual Table of Contents Welcome to your UB-Xa – Getting Started ..........4 Features .............5 Recalling a preset or saved patch, creating a new patch, storing your patches ......5 Manual Controls ..........6 Rear Panel ............20 Preset Patches ..........20 Glossary ............31...
  • Page 3 Lake, Tannoy, Turbosound, TC Electronic, TC Helicon, manufacturer, or sold with This symbol, wherever it appears, Behringer, Bugera, Aston Microphones and Coolaudio the apparatus. When a cart alerts you to the presence of uninsulated are trademarks or registered trademarks of Music...

  • Page 4: Welcome To Your Ub-Xa - Getting Started

    UB-Xa. Always increase volume levels slowly. that may have occurred during transit and notify the courier immediately if you If it is necessary to tune the UB-Xa to another instrument use the Master Tune discover any.

  • Page 5: Features

    You can also create patches from scratch by switching the UB-Xa into Manual mode and using the top panel controls to build your patch.

  • Page 6: Manual Controls

    - Exclusive – notes held play upwards from lowest then downwards (5) MASTER TUNE – allows you to adjust the overall tuning of the UB-Xa to from highest without repeats (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 etc).
  • Page 7 On higher settings if the notes held full output of the LFO will be routed. would go out of the UB-Xa’s range then low octaves will be played at the end of the sequence (default is 1).
  • Page 8 9ms and a maximum of 16.5 seconds. SUSTAIN- controls the level at which the filter will be held once the Decay The filter is the way that the UB-Xa shapes the sound produced by the VCOs to (43) cycle has completed and providing that keys are still being held.
  • Page 9 There The UB-Xa stores a 64 step polyphonic sequence in each patch. The sequencer is no time limit to Sustain. It should be noted that a high Sustain setting shares the Arpeggiator’s Rate control.
  • Page 10 Sync a - Global – adding a new note to the sequence will only add the new The UB-Xa has four buttons that can be used to recall up to fifteen note on the next applicable time interval. favourite/most used patches, including split and double patches. The buttons can be used in any of the following combinations: b - Retrigger –...
  • Page 11 If the Shift button (49) is active then transposition takes place in semitone steps. Transposition also takes place when the UB-Xa is being controlled by Shift & 18 – LFO Track – increases or decreases the speed that the LFO is an external MIDI source running at in relation to the most recent key pressed –...
  • Page 12 When pitchbend is inverted (indicated by [X]) then pushing the lever towards the body of the UB-Xa will bend the pitch down rather than up, and 7. Hold Assign - allows the hold pedal footswitch input (Back Panel 92 below) vice versa.
  • Page 13 Behringer.com and can be installed with the SYNTHTRIBE app for Windows or control 46, to the maximum of 10 seconds Mac. It is recommended that you keep your UB-Xa Firmware up to date in order to access new features. f – General 1 CC16 – the footpedal will affect continuous controller #16,...
  • Page 14 5. Device ID – select an ID number for the device from 1-16, in case multiple Mac. It is recommended that you keep your UB-Xa Firmware up to date in order units are to be used on the same MIDI connection, for Sysex.
  • Page 15 – USB Rt – switches sending of System Real Time data (start/stop/ Shift & 66 – Velocity & Aftertouch pause/continue) from UB-Xa to USB MIDI OUT (on (default) or off using +/- 1. Porta Modes – allows selection of different portamento types: buttons).
  • Page 16 UB-Xa User Manual 9. FVPO Error – adds a fixed error to the tracking of the filter, resulting 28. VCA Uni Bias – reduces the maximum level of the VCA when Unison in a flattening below the frequency set by FInit Freq (option 11) and mode is on.
  • Page 17 UB-Xa User Manual The table below shows default settings for Atrophy controls where they differ between profiles Profile UB-Xa OB-8 Creamy Aged Gnarly Bright Modern Wider 2pole Floor 11.56 13.75 25.96 25.96 8.18 92.50 25.96 11.56 4pole Floor 13.75 16.35 34.65...
  • Page 18 UB-Xa User Manual Amount. A matrix can be cleared by selecting it then pressing and holding the rotary encoder for one second. Available sources are: Empty (no source selected) ATMono (monophonic aftertouch) ATPoly (polyphonic aftertouch) Breath (Incoming Continuous Controller #2 (Breath))
  • Page 19 Destinations conjunction with Rate control (69)) These destinations can have a modulation source assigned to them: Tuning (raises or lowers the Master Tuning of the UB-Xa, in conjunction Empty (no destination selected) with Master Tune control (5)) Churn (multiplies the Butter modulation) V Detune (increases or decreases the amount of voice detuning, in conjunction with Voice Detune control (Shift &...

  • Page 20: Rear Panel

    (90) (91) (92) (93) (85) (86) (87) Patches can be stored into any of the UB-Xa’s four patch banks and can be backed up using any Sysex librarian. Factory supplied presets can be restored on a bank The rear panel of your UB-Xa contains the connections for power, peripherals and by bank basis.
  • Page 21 UB-Xa User Manual Number Patch Number Patch Reed Piano Three Way Perc Organ Percussion Chopper Harp 2 Oriental Unison S/H PW Tropical Horns Strings 5 Rubber Clav Clarinet Strings 2 Bright Drone Edge Piano Rock Solo Hymn Organ Claves Recorder...
  • Page 22 Damper Pedal FootSwitchDamper Patches can be stored into any of the UB-Xa’s four patch banks and can be backed Sostenuto FootSwitchSostenuto up using any Sysex librarian. Factory supplied presets can be restored on a bank...
  • Page 23 UB-Xa User Manual MIDI NRPNs 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes ControlPortamentoAmount 0~16383 patch ControlPortamentoBend 0~16383 patch ControlDetune 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192. ControlVoiceDetune 0~16383 patch ControlUnison patch ControlPolyphonicVoiceCount patch ControlUnisonVoiceCount 1~16 patch ControlPortamentoSettings 0~15 global Bitmask: Match (0001) Quantize (0010) Bend (0100) Exponential (1000)
  • Page 24 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes EnvelopesModChannel1A 0~16383 patch EnvelopesModChannel1Delay 0~16383 patch EnvelopesModChannel2A 0~16383 patch EnvelopesModChannel2Delay 0~16383 patch EnvelopesPedalR 0~16383 patch OscillatorsOSC1PWAmount 0~16383 patch OscillatorsOSC1Transpose 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192. OscillatorsOSC2PWAmount 0~16383 patch OscillatorsOSC2Transpose 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192.
  • Page 25 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes ModMatrixBus3Amount 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192. ModMatrixBus4Amount 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192. ModMatrixBus5Amount 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192. ModMatrixBus6Amount 0~16383 patch Signed Number, Midpoint is 8192.
  • Page 26 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes ModMatrixBus3Destination 0~29 patch Enumeration: Empty (0), ButterInput (1), EnvelopesFilterA (2), EnvelopesFilterD (3), FilterFrequency (4), FilterModulation (5), FilterNoise (6), EnvelopesFilterR (7), FilterResonance (8), EnvelopesFilterS (9), EnvelopesLoudnessA (10), EnvelopesLoudnessD (11), EnvelopesLoudnessR (12), EnvelopesLoudnessS...
  • Page 27 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes ModMatrixBus6Destination 0~29 patch Enumeration: Empty (0), ButterInput (1), EnvelopesFilterA (2), EnvelopesFilterD (3), FilterFrequency (4), FilterModulation (5), FilterNoise (6), EnvelopesFilterR (7), FilterResonance (8), EnvelopesFilterS (9), EnvelopesLoudnessA (10), EnvelopesLoudnessD (11), EnvelopesLoudnessR (12), EnvelopesLoudnessS...
  • Page 28 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes UIPatchNameH 0~16383 patch UIVintageKnobs global Enumeration: Extended (0), Purism (1), UILastUpperPatchNumber 0~127 global UILastUpperPatchBank global UILastSplitProgramNumber 0~35 global UILastDoubleProgramNumber 0~35 global UIAtrophyProfileNumber global UILastPatch 0~15 global Bitmask: Upper (0001) Lower (0010) Combo (0100) Split (1000)
  • Page 29 UB-Xa User Manual 14-bit Parameter Name Range Scope Notes 1408 PedalSustainAssignment global Enumeration: Patch Up (0), Patch Down (1), Program Up (2), Program Down (3), Sustain (4), Hold (5), Sostenuto (6), 1409 PedalSustainPolarity global Enumeration: Negative (0), Positive (1), Disabled (2),...
  • Page 30 The UB-Xa has two ways of using MPE. The Single option uses channel 1 as the base channel, then uses the other fifteen for MPE. However if a Split or Double Program is in use it is possible to switch to the Zones mode, where two base channels, channel 1 for the lower keyboard and channel 16 for the upper, with channels 2 – 8 used for lower keyboard MPE and channels 9 –...

  • Page 31: Glossary

    UB-Xa User Manual Glossary MIDI Message – data transmitted from one MIDI device to another that constitutes an instruction. ADSR – Envelope generator with four stages: Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release. Mix – The balance between two or more signals.
  • Page 32 UB-Xa User Manual Trigger – The activation of a function, for example pressing a key to start the Envelope cycle. Tune – The adjustment of the pitch of an instrument to be the same as that of another instrument; or the adjustment of one oscillator to be in tune with the other.

  • Page 33: Federal Communications Commission Compliance Information

    UB-Xa User Manual FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION COMPLIANCE INFORMATION Behringer UB-Xa Music Tribe Commercial NV Inc. Responsible Party Name: 122 E. 42nd St.1, Address: 8th Floor NY, NY 10168, United States legal@musictribe.com Email Address: UB-Xa This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules.
  • Page 34 We Hear You...
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