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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.
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.)
