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Behringer U-CONTRO LUMX25 manual

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    U-CONTROL UMX25 Version 1.0 January 2006 User’s Manual[...]

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    2 U-CONTROL UMX25 This symbol, wherever it appears, alerts you to the presence of uninsulated dangerous voltage inside the enclosure—voltage that may be sufficient to constitute a risk of shock. This symbol, wherever it appears, alerts you to important operating and maintenance instructions in the accompanying literature. Please read the manual. [...]

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    3 U-CONTROL UMX25 UMX25 U-CONTROL The Ultimate Studio in a Box: 25-Key USB/MIDI Controller Keyboard with USB/Audio Interface, 50 Software Instruments and Ableton ® Live Lite 4 BEHRINGER Edition V Unleash your creativity and play 50 virtual instruments and synthesizers, take off with an unlimited number of sound creations. Download more free instru[...]

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    4 U-CONTROL UMX25 T ABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................ 5 1.1 Before you get star ted .................................................... 5 1.1.1 Shipment ............................................................... 5 1.1.2 Initial operation and power supply ........................ 5 1.1.3 [...]

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    5 U-CONTROL UMX25 1. INTRODUCTION Thank you for showing your confidence in BEHRINGER products by purchasing the UMX25. The UMX25 is an extremely flexible master keyboard with a controller unit that can be used for a wide array of applications. Whether you need independent control of computer rack synthesizers, general MIDI sound modules or effects [...]

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    6 U-CONTROL UMX25 V Remotely controlling software mixers (volume, panorama, mute functions, etc.) V Remotely controlling transport functions (playback, forward, stop etc.) on sequencers, hard disk recorders, drum computers etc. V Live control of volume and sound parameters on expanders V Remotely controlling groove boxes, step sequencers, MIDI gene[...]

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    7 U-CONTROL UMX25 3. CONTROL ELEMENTS AND CONNECTIONS What settings do I have to make? Where? How? Basically, which control element generates which controller must be set on the UMX25, and how arriving controller commands should be interpreted must be set on the receiving device. Regarding controller assignment, there are two possible principles: V[...]

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    8 U-CONTROL UMX25 4. OPERATION Keyboard legend: Informs you about the special functions performed by individual keys on the keyboard. The individual elements of the keyboard legend are described in detail in chapter “4 OPERATION”. Operation Octave s hi ft LED press onc e Shift one octave up or down LED on press 2nd time Shift 2 octav es up or d[...]

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    9 U-CONTROL UMX25 4. OPERATION The following control element assignments including channel information can be permanently stored in the USER MEMORY: - FOOT SWITCH connector - OCTAVE SHIFT button - VOLUME/DATA fader - PITCH BEND wheel - MODULATION wheel - Rotary controls R1 - R8 - Buttons B1 - B8 4.2 ASSIGN MODE As already mentioned in the preceding[...]

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    10 U-CONTROL UMX25 4. OPERATION 3) Release the ASSIGN button. The device automatically enters Play mode again.  The SNAPSHOT instruction is sent immediately after playing the keyboard. 4.2.6 LOCAL OFF The effect of LOCAL OFF is that any data entries made with the control elements will NOT be passed on to the MIDI OUT connector or the USB OUT. In[...]

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    11 U-CONTROL UMX25 4. OPERATION In steps 5 and 6 you have defined the bank from which the desired program will be selected. Now define the program itself: 8) Press the button followed by the number keys on the keyboard to enter the program number of your choice. Only values between 0 and 127 can be entered. Higher values are ignored by the device. [...]

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    12 U-CONTROL UMX25 5. SPECIFICATIONS 2) Press the one of the two OCTAVE SHIFT buttons to which you want to assign a controller. 3) Release the ASSIGN button. 4) Press the number keys on the keyboard to enter the controller number of your choice (as described in chapter 4.2.1). 5) Confirm your selection with . To discard your assignments either pres[...]

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    13 U-CONTROL UMX25 6. APPENDIX 6. APPENDIX T ab. 6.1: MIDI-Controller overview[...]

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    14 U-CONTROL UMX25 7. WARRANTY 7. WARRANTY § 1 OTHER WARRANTY RIGHTS AND NATIONAL LAW 1. This warranty does not exclude or limit the buyer’s statutory rights provided by national law, in particular, any such rights against the seller that arise from a legally effective purchase contract. 2. The warranty regulations mentioned herein are applicabl[...]