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There you can choose the Controllers Page with one click on the Controllers Tab. This is where
all 16 Macro Controls are found. Every Macro Control is represented on the Controllers page
through a menu and a level indicator (Slider) that indicates the current value of the Control
Signal. Click on the name field of Macro Control 1, in order to use the computer keyboard to
enter a somewhat more memorable name, "Filter 1," for example. When you activated auto
naming under the point General in the Options Menu earlier, every new Macro Control was
named after the first assigned parameter.
Assign the Modulation Wheel to the Macro Control "Filter 1" as the source for the control
information. To do this, click on the menu of the Macro Control and select the entry MIDI
Learn from the list. Now, move the Modulation Wheel. You have assigned the control source:
the status bar of the Macro Control will now change its value when you move the Modulation
Wheel. Simultaneously, the values of both of the Controls to which the Macro Control has
been assigned also change.
The value changes of the two parameters should have gone in opposite directions so we
must change the direction for the filter resonance. We will switch to the Assignments Page
for this purpose. On the left, you will see a list of Macro Controls. Click on the Macro Control
"Filter 1." In the area on the right next to the list with the Macro Controls you will now see
the two parameters that you have assigned to the Macro Control "Filter 1", namely Filter A1
Freq and Filter A1 Res. You need not change the values in Depth control and in Lag control
for the purposes of our example, more on this in the next section. In order to reach the op-
posite changes in values for both parameters, click on the Inversion switch of the parameter
Filter A1 Res. You have now reversed the interpretation of the incoming Control Signal for
this parameter, the Filter should illustrate the posture formulated in the input. More precise
information about the functions of the Assignments Page can be found in the next section.
We already met the concept of bundling parameters (ie a single controller influencing multiple
parameters) when we described the Master Envelope: There you can change the position of
several Breakpoints with one of the four Master Envelope Knobs. Learning via MIDI is another
feature that the Macro Controls and the Master Envelope have in common. The next section
gives you more details on the features of the Macro Controls.
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