User manual M-AUDIO X-SESSION QUICK STARTED V1

[. . . ] X-SESSION USB MIDI Control Surface with Cross-fader Quick Start Guide This guide is intended to help get you started quickly. In order to achieve optimal usage of your new X-Session, we recommend that you carefully study the enclosed product manual, either after completing the process described in this guide or before. Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Evolution X-Session. English X-Session is a complete DJ solution containing the X-Session USB control surface, Ableton Live XS digital audio workstation and Arturia Storm XS virtual studio. The pack provides you with everything you need for digital DJing including hundreds of loops and grooves. The X-Session controller surface lets you mix, tweak, launch, cut and cross fade audio material during your session. [. . . ] Move the controllers "C6" and "C8" on the X-Session control surface. You can now scratch with the virtual turntables in Storm XS. You may need to practice your technique before mastering it completely. The list below shows how each controller affects the Storm XS program in this particular song: Snapshot And Controller Mute 1. Whilst still playing a Scene, press SNAPSHOT on the X-Session control surface. This function sends out current settings of all rotary controllers and the crossfader on the X-Session control surface to Storm XS. This function mutes the outputs of all rotary controllers and the X-fade. Move some of X-Session's rotary controllers to different positions. Because the controller mute function is activated, this will not have any immediate effect on your mix. This should now dramatically alter your mix to the positions you just moved the X-Session controllers to. SNAPSHOT and CTRL MUTE are two functions that can be used to great effect to alter your mixes dramatically. You will need to play around with this for a little while to find out what settings have the best effect on your mix. These features really beat anything you can do with traditional DJing equipment. 10 · English Creating Your Own Setups Customizing your own setups with Arturia Storm XS is easy, even while you are performing. Hold down ctrl and click with your right hand mouse button on the parameter you want to control. Move the controller you want to assign to the parameter. Storm XS automatically detects each X-Session controllers setting. To give you real flexibility when using the program we have setup the first 4 presets on the X-session control surface so that all the rotary controller values are different on all four presets. You can therefore setup presets to control effects separate from general mixing giving you access to up to 84 different parameters over the 4 presets. Find Out More About Storm XS This section has mainly dealt with how you use the X-Session control surface with Arturia Storm XS. To learn more about all the great features implemented in Arturia Storm XS please launch the program and select "How to use Storm" in the Help menu. Recalling Presets On X-Session Control Surface The X-Session control surface contains a total of 10 memory locations. We have optimised the first 4 presets for use with applications with a learn feature. The following is a list of all the presets contained in the X-Session. Factory Preset · 01 CC's 16-31 · 02 CC's 32-47 · 03 CC's 48-63 · 04 CC's 102-117 · 05 GM Preset · 06 Reason Native Preset · 07 Native Instruments Pro-53 · 08 ReBirth · 09 SampleTank · 10 SoundBlaster Cards Synth Control Presets 01-04 are intended for software that uses a learn function. The Cross Fader is assigned to CC10, while the buttons are assigned to MIDI CC's that do not clash with any of the MIDI CC's assigned to the controllers within the first 4 Presets. [. . . ] 44 (0) 1309 671301 Technical Support (Mac): . 44 (0) 1765 650072 Technical Support (email): . support@maudio. co. uk Internet Home Page: . http://www. maudio. co. uk M-AUDIO Canada - 1400 St-Jean Baptiste Ave. [. . . ]