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X-Session
Advanced User Guide
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You can at any one time send out a program change message to you sound card, sound
module, instrument or whatever other device will receive this standard MIDI message.
The program change will be sent on the global MIDI channel.
1.
Press the PROGRAM button.
2.
Type in the program number you wish to send, using the numerical keypad
or the +/- keys.
Example: The LCD display the PROG symbol in the
right
hand corner
Indicating that the PROGRAM button has been pressed. The program
value sent is 00 and its sent on the global MIDI channel 01.
You can also program the assignable buttons to send out fixed program messages to
individual MIDI channels. For further information regarding this method, please go to
pages 5 to 9.
Global MIDI channel: For more information, please go to page 10.
If your receiving device has more than 128 presets, you may be able to access the
additional banks by sending out bank change LS
B
and MSB messages.
1.
Press the DATA LSB or DATA MSB button.
2.
Type in the bank number you wish to send, using the numerical keypad or
the +/- keys.
Please check the documentation for your receiving device to ensure that it will respond
to these messages. For more information about LSB and MSB, please see the chapter
“Program and Bank Changes Explained” on page 17 in this manual.
Press the +/- buttons together to send a SNAP SHOT of the
current
X-Session
controller assignments and their values.
When you send a snapshot, the LCD will display the SNAPSHOT symbol.
The data for an individual controller will be sent on which ever channel that
controller has been assigned to.
Snap Shot is one way of synchronizing the receiving device with the
X-Session
and can be used as a creative tool, with interesting and surprising results.
The data sent when SNAP SHOT is pressed, can be viewed in your sequencers list
editor. Set your sequencer to record and press SNAP SHOT. Then open the list editor
and ensure its set to display controller data.
Sending Program Changes On The Fly
Sending Bank Changes On The Fly
Sending Snap Shot
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Evolution
X-Session
Advanced User Guide
MIDI Note Numbers
Octave
(n)
Note Numbers
Cn
C#n Dn D#n En Fn F#n Gn G#n An A#n Bn
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11
0
12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
1
24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
2
36
37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
3
48
49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
4
60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
5
72
73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
6
84
85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
7
96
97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
8
108
109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119
9
120
121 122 123 124 125 126 127