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5. Using ORCA PAD 48 with Software
5.1 Creating MIDI Presets with the ORCA PAD 48 Software Editor
5.1.1 Overview: What is a ORCA PAD 48 Preset?
Thanks to the ORCA PAD 48 Software Editor it’s possible to configure the ORCA PAD 48
to work with practically any device or software capable of responding to MIDI information.
To summarize, here are some examples of what you can do with a ORCA PAD 48 preset:
●Assign pads to send MIDI Machine Control commands (MMC).
●Use the pads to transmit MIDI notes.
●Switch between two values of any MIDI CC# by playing a pad.
●Assign an encoder to control any MIDI CC# and define its operational range.
●Assign a slider to control any MIDI CC# and define its operational range.
●Save the entire set of altered controls to one of ORCA PAD 48’s eight preset locations.
●Define another seven sets of parameter assignments and save each one to a different
memory location.
●Recall any of the eight personalized presets easily and immediately.
5.1.2 Assign a Pad to Start/Stop MMC
One feature that often comes in handy with a controller keyboard is the ability to start and
stop a song without having to use the computer keyboard or mouse. It’s really easy to set
up the ORCA PAD 48 pads to do that.
For example we’ll use Pad 7 to send Stop commands and Pad 8 to send Start commands.
This is accomplished through the use of MIDI Machine Control commands, which you’ve
probably seen abbreviated as “MMC”.
5.1.2.1 Select the Pad Mode
Let’s begin by selecting Pad 7 by clicking on its graphic in the MIDI Control Center or by
tapping Pad 7 on the ORCA PAD 48. Then click the Mode field to activate the pull-down
menu:
5.1.2.2 Set the MMC Message number
Once the Mode has been set to MMC, the trick is to set both the LSB and MSB to the same
number so the pad knows which command to send. MMC Stop command needs the CC
number set to 1, like so:
