Behringer MOTÖR 49 Owner's manual

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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 im ortant to understand that com atible DAW a lications will ex ect 3 se arate MIDI events for
ro erly reacting on a fader move:
1. Touch-ON event indicating that a finger is touching a s ecific fader (e.g. for switching from
automation read to write mode)
2. Some double- recision value changes re resenting the fader osition
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 o eration modes: “MIDI” and “MC.”
As the MC mode relies on 100% com atibility to the Mackie Control rotocol, there is no way of editing
or changing any of the MIDI assignments. Everything is redefined in the rotocol.
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 rotocol “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 age 3 below, where switching the
touch event off is described as an exam le.
By default, the touch command is assigned to MIDI note on/off. This will be required in MC mode
(following the Mackie Control rotocol), 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 sim ly assigning it to the MOTÖR I/O orts.
(How to assign the MOTÖR in a DAW using the MC mode is described in se arate “How to” documents.)

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Working with the motor faders (in MC mode):
When you move a fader, you should first touch the fader ca to announce a ossible fader move to the
DAW, before actually starting the movement. Without this announcement, the motor might try to “fight”
against your movement in order to kee the DAW’s current fader osition. Once the DAW has realized
that a fader will be moved (i.e. switching from automation read to write mode) the motor is released for
following your finger easily.
When you move a fader, try to do it slowly. Smooth fades are more musical than hard cuts or level
jum s. Please consider that fast movements and moving many faders at a time may increase the risk that
some of the MIDI data gets lost in transmission. This may result in lagging fader u dates or even
tem orarily wrong fader ositions in the DAW. Since the DAW owns the control of motor faders, these
might fli back to their osition in the DAW.
You will have the best results with slow movements on no more than 4 faders at a time.
Note: The above recommendation is valid for both MIDI and MC o eration modes.
. TOUCH
2. MOVE
Fading SLOW
Fading FAST
Move up to 4 faders
simultaneously
Move more than 4 faders
simultaneously

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Switching off the touch command in standard MIDI mode:
Let us look at how we can edit the MIDI assignments for one s ecific control event, for exam le, the
Fader Touch event.
In case you don’t want to use this function, you can re-assign the touch command to a different MIDI
command (CC), change the MIDI channel, or just switch off the function by setting the MIDI channel to
OFF. The following ste s describe how this is done based on the factory DEFAULT reset:
1. Please ress the MIDI button as the OPERATION MODE
2. Now ress the GLOBAL button
3. Now select by turning/ ushing the DATA ush encoder: . MIDI > 4. CHANGE CONTROL
4. The dis lay now says “ <WAITING …> “
5. Press the FADER BANK button of the fader which you would like to modify, for exam le “ -8”
6. Now touch (do not move) the desired fader, for exam le “F ”
7. The dis lay will indicate “FADER TOUCH ”
8. Press the DATA knob ( ush encoder) to acce t and go on to the next ste

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9. The dis lay now shows “MIDI OUT: USB+MIDI” which needs no change > press DATA knob
10. The dis lay now shows “MIDI CH: 1” > turn the DATA knob to select “OFF” and press DATA knob
11. Now press the DATA knob 6 times until “SUCCESS” is indicated
12. Now you can ress the FWD button for assigning the next fader knob, or ress BACK to exit from
the menu
Notes:
A. If you would like to assign “Fader 24” for exam le, you have to ress the FADER BANK button
“17-24” in ste 5 above, and touch the 8th fader “F8” in ste 6 (which re resents fader 24). Now
(in Ste 7) the dis lay will show “FADER TOUCH 24.”
B. If you want to remove the touch command for all 32 channel faders, you have to re eat the
above ste s for each fader individually.
C. To avoid loss of your new assignments, you should store these in a new user reset (see
descri tion in the Quick Start Guide > MOTÖR61 / MOTÖR49 Dis lay Menus > EDIT MENU >
PRESETS)