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The Digital 328 mixing console offers full dynamic automation. What this means is that any
encoder/fader movement, button press, in-fact any control surface setting can be recorded in
realtime via MIDI to Cakewalk, for playback at a later time.
The 328 allows not only every control surface audio parameter to be automated, but also full
automation of both Dynamic Processors and both FX Processors.
This means that a fully automated mix track can be integrated into a recording session,
containing any fades, mutes, snapshot recalls etc. that occur at certain points through your song.
As the automation data is recorded using MIDI messages, any automation event may be isolated
and edited/moved/deleted from within the sequencer track, or even new automation events can
be created from within the sequencer itself.
The 328 achieves automation via standard MIDI messages, the same MIDI messages which are
usually associated with MIDI keyboards, drum machines etc. The only difference when it comes
to automating the 328, is in the way that the console responds to these MIDI messages: a MIDI
synthesizer’s response to a certain MIDI message may be to increase the resonance of a filter,
the 328’s response to that same message may be to move channel fader 9 to +5dB!
Many other automated devices utilize MIDI Continuous Controllers (Control Changes) to
accomplish their automation. A MIDI Continuous Controller message, of which there are 128,
consists of two parts (bytes): an Event ID byte describes to a receiving device which parameter
to change, and an Event value data byte tells the instrument by how much to change that
parameter.
The message format of a Continuous Controller message is as follows:
Event ID =Event value
(0-127) (0-127)
This gives 128 different controllers, each with a resolution of 128 values.
Parameter to be
set
Value to Which
Parameter Is Set
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How Does The 328 Achieve Dynamic Automation?
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Continuous Controller And NRPN Messages
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