Euphonix CS Series Manual page 5

Christian Dolenga
I also don't know if MixView can receive anything useful on that port, like naming the
channels or displaying fancy character movements on the CleaR Displays from an external
source. That would however be very low on the agenda...
2.3. CC Mappings and Program Change (MOTU Port 3)
This is the part that seems to be the easiest to grasp, since it's the best documented one.
Nevertheless, it took me a while to figure it out, and I'm trying to guide you through the
process as well. On this port you can basically use your faders and mute buttons as remote
controllers for anything imaginable that accepts either 7-bit or 14-bit messages. Missing a
LARC for your reverb unit? Wanna control the cutoff frequency of that cool filter plugin? No
problem, just use faders on your console for any parameter you like. Or maybe you want it
the other way round? Exactly draw panning or EQ moves of your console from the grid of
your DAW? Let's dive in...
2.3.1. Controlling Euphonix CS from external device or DAW
If you navigate to F3 (System) -> F4 (MIDI) -> F1 (In), you'll see a pre-populated list with
all the possible parameters of the console that can be controlled via external MIDI-CC-
commands, all targeting channel 1 of the console as a starting point, and all switched to
"OFF".
Each parameter is assigned a unique CC number, starting at 1 for "lower fader", 2 for
"lower mute", and so on. The CC numbers go from 1 to 31, and then from 64 to 91,
with room from 92 to 127. The omission of CCs 32 to 63 serves the purpose of leaving
the possibility to build CC pairs for 14-bit messages (CC0/32, CC1/33,...,CC31/63). Those
pairs are kind of a standard when it comes to 14-bit messages. We therefore end up (if
we take CC number zero into account) with 97 possible CCs per MIDI Channel, which
gives us 97 x 16 = 1,552 possible unique objects on the console to be remotely
controlled, if nothing else is on that MIDI port. But why would it? By now you should
have realized, that a 10-Port USB-MIDI-Interface is no overkill...
It is advisable to leave this list as it is, and simply make a copy of the item you want to
automate. With the wheel, just navigate to that object, hit ENTER on the DSC Keypad
(your copy has automatically been turned "ON") and adjust values for console channel
and incoming MIDI CC and MIDI channel by navigating with the two arrow keys on the
DSC keypad. You can decrease / increase the values with F3 / F4, or you can hit F2 and
then turn the wheel to adjust the value (don't forget to hit F2 again when your done). If
you want to use higher resolution 14-bit mode, navigate to the field "MIDI Width" and
hit F4 to change between "7bit" and "14bit". Just make sure your external MIDI device
or your DAW is also sending 14-bit messages on the same CC pairs.
To remove an entry from that list, just navigate to that object and hit "Del" on the DSC
keypad. If you hit "Clr", then you need to confirm to clear all your assignments. The list
then reverts to the pre-populated one as you first encountered it.
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