Bad_Mister
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Joined 07-30-2002
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Re: Foot Switch
Ok, the rack version has limitations, but why putting the FS menu, in the UTILITY page?
The FS is on the menu so that you can select it as a SOURCE control device. Within each and every VOICE on the Motif-Rack you have six Controller Setups… you can use the following physical SOURCE devices and assign them to specific parameters:
PB - Pitch Bend Wheel
MW - Modulation Wheel
AT - Aftertouch
FC2 - (assignable) Foot Controller 2
FS - Foot Switch
FC1 - (assignable) Foot Controller 1
BC - Breath Controller
AS1 - Assignable 1
AS2 - Assignable 2
The first three on the list (PB, MW, AT) are fixed control devices - meaning they have a message that they always send. Pitch Bend (En) is its own category of message, as is Aftertouch (Dn). The MW will always send cc001 (what these message are programmed to do is always a function of the receiving device or sound module).
The other Source devices (FC1, FC2, FS, BC, AS1, AS2) are flexible as to what message they send.
By setting your MIDI Controller to send cc099 you have not really selected any universal MIDI command… Motif-Rack control devices can be set to any value between 1-95. So cc099 does nothing for the Motif-Rack, at all. (It is different in the keyboard).
If, for example, you set the FS to Control Change number 20, for example, (this is a controller number that has no specific function), you could then send in cc020 and have that change something about a specific Voice. Say you assigned it in a Lead sound to be ELFO Depth, stepping on a foot switch set to send cc020 would then add Element LFO.
The default for the FS is cc088… so by setting your controller’s FS to send 88 you could now program FS as one of the SOURCE devices in any Voice, it could do any number of different things - depending on how you program the Voice.
Using the FS to INC or DEC through sounds is not an option on the Motif-Rack (It may be on your CME controller, I’m not sure).
The way that you move through sounds on the Motif Rack is by Bank Select and Program Change messages.
If you turn Bank Select = OFF, and leave Program Change set to ON (in UTILITY > MIDI) then sending a Program Change message between 0-127 will select a sound in the current bank.
I’ll have to check if the CME will send MSB/LSB and PC messages - or if it can increment through PCs.
Update
According to the CME UF manual (page 14) you can send MSB BANK cc#0, LSB BANK cc#32 from the CME UF8… Values can be sent 0-127
So you have everything you need to select sounds on the Motif Rack
Preset 1 = MSB value 63; LSB value 0; For Program Change 001 (Ap: PowerGrand) you would send a value of 0
Preset 2 = MSB value 63; LSB value 1
Preset 3 = MSB value 63; LSB value 2
Preset 4 = MSB value 63; LSB value 3
Preset 5 = MSB value 63; LSB value 4
User 1 = MSB value 63; LSB value 8
User 2 = MSB value 63; LSB value 9
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