Midi Communication And Control - M-Audio Wayoutware TimewARP 2600 User Manual

2.1.7 Using the Virtual Keyboard Display
The graphic TimewARP 2600 keyboard display responds directly to mouse events; click on any key to create a MIDI
"keydown" signal. This is useful when you are creating and tuning a new patch, if you don't have a hardware
MIDI keyboard handy.
The virtual keyboard also displays—as key depressions—incoming MIDI note-events. Use this to monitor your
external MIDI keyboard connection and activity.
2.1.8 Polyphonic Operation
The TimewARP 2600 can respond to as many as eight simultaneous keydown events. Use the Voices dropdown
(see section 4.1.1.2) to set the number of voices.
2.1.9 Saving and Loading Patches
You may save patches using the Save or Save As buttons or load patches with the Patch Manager (see section 4.1
below). There is no limit to the number of patches you can create and save. To enable the Save button, the Lock
button (padlock icon) must be in the unlocked mode.
You may wish to create a bank of "template" patches, generic versions of often-used configurations.
The TimewARP 2600 responds to MIDI bank-select and patch-select commands.
2.2

MIDI Communication and Control

2.2.1 Slider, Knob and Switch Control
You may control any slider, knob or switch on the TimewARP 2600 plug-in with any MIDI controller. If you have a
hardware control surface, or if your MIDI keyboard has slider or knob control devices, you can use them to control
any combination of sliders, knobs or switches in a patch.
Any connections you set up are global to the TimewARP 2600—you can store them independently of any specific
patch (see section 4.1.2.1 below).
To connect a slider, knob, or switch to an external MIDI controller, hold down the control (Mac) or shift (Windows)
key and click on the slider, knob or switch image. The responding dialog box offers you both global and patch-
specific connections.
2.2.1.1 Global MIDI Map Settings
Select the controller number, either by directly typing it in, or by moving the physical control on the MIDI device you
intend to use.
Set the response curve, polarity, and range. The response curve may be linear, or exponential, or logarithmic. The
polarity is either direct or inverted. To set the Control Range, drag either end of the bar inward. Whenever the bar
covers less than the entire controller range, you may also drag it to the right or left, to adjust the range offset.
You may, if you wish, assign the same external control to several TimewARP 2600 sliders or knobs, and set a
different curve, polarity, and range for each one. In this way, you can create patches and configurations of the
TimewARP 2600 that are specifically adapted for expressive performance either live or in the studio.
2.2.1.2 Patch-Specific Settings
Besides globally assigning a slider, knob or switch to a MIDI controller, you may also assign the slider or knob to
be controlled by the velocity and/or aftertouch parameters of incoming keyboard events. (These assignments are
not global; they are stored with individual patches.)
In real time, these controller values are summed with the current global control values to determine the real-time
value of the slider. So, by careful tuning beforehand, you can have both keyboard expression and hardware
knob/slider control at the same time.
2.2.2 MIDI Patch Selection
In each group of patches, the first 128 are available to standard incoming MIDI patch-selection commands.
Patch categories don't affect this numbering. For example, if the first category in a group has 127 patches, then
the second category will have just one patch available for MIDI patch selection.
Groups themselves can be selected with MIDI bank-select commands.
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