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General Information:

Your MOTÖR Keyboard offers 8 + 1 touch-sensitive motor faders.

It is important to understand that compatible DAW applications will expect 3 separate MIDI events for

properly reacting on a fader move:

1. Touch-ON event indicating that a finger is touching a specific fader (e.g. for switching from

automation read to write mode)

2. Some double-precision value changes representing the fader position

3. Touch-OFF event indicating that the finger is no longer touching the fader (e.g. for switching back

to automation read mode)

Your MOTÖR keyboard can be used in two fundamentally different operation modes: "MIDI" and "MC."

As the MC mode relies on 100% compatibility to the Mackie Control protocol, there is no way of editing

or changing any of the MIDI assignments. Everything is predefined in the protocol.

However, the MIDI mode allows full editing of all controller assignments, in order to fully customize the

MOTÖR behavior to your requirements.

The Mackie Control protocol "MC" mode uses MIDI note on/off events assigned to the touch on/off

events, and this is also the default setting in "MIDI" mode. Refer to page 3 below, where switching the

touch event off is described as an example.

By default, the touch command is assigned to MIDI note on/off. This will be required in MC mode

(following the Mackie Control protocol), and can also be used in standard MIDI mode.

Generally, the behavior of the motor faders is the same for MIDI mode and MC mode.

While in MIDI mode, you have to do all MIDI assignments yourself; in MC mode you can control any DAW

which offers "Mackie Control" as a Control Surface, by simply assigning it to the MOTÖR I/O ports.

(How to assign the MOTÖR in a DAW using the MC mode is described in separate "How to" documents.)

HOW TO

BEHRINGER MOTÖR61/49 Keyboards

How to make the best use of motor faders

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Page 1 HOW TO BEHRINGER MOTÖR61/49 Keyboards How to make the best use of motor faders General Information: Your MOTÖR Keyboard offers 8 + 1 touch-sensitive motor faders. It is important to understand that compatible DAW applications will expect 3 separate MIDI events for properly reacting on a fader move: 1.
Page 2 HOW TO Working with the motor faders (in MC mode): 1. TOUCH 2. MOVE When you move a fader, you should first touch the fader cap to announce a possible fader move to the DAW, before actually starting the movement. Without this announcement, the motor might try to “fight” against your movement in order to keep the DAW’s current fader position.
Page 3 HOW TO Switching off the touch command in standard MIDI mode: Let us look at how we can edit the MIDI assignments for one specific control event, for example, the Fader Touch event. In case you don’t want to use this function, you can re-assign the touch command to a different MIDI command (CC), change the MIDI channel, or just switch off the function by setting the MIDI channel to OFF.
Page 4 HOW TO 9. The display now shows “MIDI OUT: USB+MIDI” which needs no change > press DATA knob 10. The display now shows “MIDI CH: 1” > turn the DATA knob to select “OFF” and press DATA knob 11. Now press the DATA knob 6 times until “SUCCESS” is indicated 12.