Lcd And Page Buttons; Modes Of Operation (User And Special) - JLCooper Electronics MCS-3800 User's Reference Manual

LCD and Page Buttons

If the already selected Page button is pressed, its LED will turn
off and the LCD shows the Bank name. Press any Page button
to restore the LCD to a display of the encoder names and
values.
If connected to an audio or video host system, developed to
communicate directly the MCS Controller, the LCD may also
change when the host system is launched.
The display is then taken over by the host.
In that case, refer to the documentation of the host system for
information about what appears in the display.
Modes of Operation
The MCS-3000 Series Controllers feature MIDI I/O standard.
There are two fundamentally different modes of MIDI
operation.
(1) The MCS Controller is "user-assignable", with local control
ON. We'll call this User Assignable Mode.
(2) The MCS Controller is not "user-assignable", and local
control is OFF. We'll call this Special Mode.
When in User Assignable Mode, you can assign each control
yourself. You chose what MIDI command the controls send.
When in Special Mode, you cannot program the unit.
The MCS Controller relies on the implementation of the host
system. The MCS Controller sends special, proprietary
commands to the software host system. The host system
determines what each control will do.
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