User manual TC ELECTRONIC S6000OPERATION

[. . . ] SYSTEM 6000 OPERATION - CONTENTS Introduction Table of Contents . . 1 Basic Operation Accessing a Mainframe . . 2 General Setup Basic TC Icon Operation . . 3 Operating Levels Scene, Routing, Engine . [. . . ] (see table in next column for details) Factory and User mode: These modes will force any incoming program change to access either Factory or User banks directly and are Ctrl 32 value 32 Ctrl 32 value 64 Ctrl 32 value 65 Ctrl 32 value 66 Ctrl 32 value 73 - Example: You wish to recall preset 10 from the Reverb (Music Surround) bank. According to the table above: · Set Ctrl 0 to "0" and Ctrl 32 to "2" and send program change no 10. SysEx Device ID Range: 0 to 126 Select SysEx ID for the Mainframe. 12 FRAME - SYSTEM - MAIN MIDI Control Page On MIDI Control Page the following options are available: Read Program Change Select whether the Frame should read incoming program changes or not. Send Program Change Select whether the Frame should send program changes to MIDI out when presets are recalled via TC Icon or the TC Icon Software editor. Read Control Change Select whether the Frame should Read Control Changes messages. Send Control Change Options here are Single (7 bit) or Double (14 bit) precison. Read SysEx - Send SysEx These two parameters determine whether the Frame should read and send SysEx. 13 FRAME - SYSTEM - MAIN External MIDI Control - of Fader Parameters From software version 2. 5, all fader assignable parameters can be remote controlled via MIDI Control Change Messages. To be able to control Faders you must create a dedicated Fader User Group holding these parameters. Page 20 in this manual section explains how to create User Fader Groups. Single Precision - Double Precision We support both single (7bit) and double precision (14 bit) Controller Data, but you should notice that best resolution is achieved using 14 bit Controller Data. By controlling parameters with Single precision you will be able to control in 128 steps for a complete parameter range. For most applications this will be quite fine and this is also the precision most external controllers and especially sequencers support. However, System 6000 supports the 14 bit precision standard that has a considerably higher resolution: 128x128=16384 steps. To achieve this resolution via an external fader control the external controlling device must be able to handle two controllers at the same time on the same MIDI channel. The scheme below shows which controllers to assign to which Faders for both Single Precision and Double Precision situations. Single precision: FADER 1 MIDI FADER 2 MIDI FADER 3 MIDI FADER 4 MIDI FADER 5 MIDI FADER 6 MIDI CC CC CC CC CC CC 70 71 72 73 74 75 Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound Sound Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller Controller 1 2 3 4 5 6 Double precision, LSB: (Note that both LSB and MSB must be sent for double precision) FADER 1 MIDICC 48 General Purpose Controller FADER 2 MIDICC 49 General Purpose Controller FADER 3 MIDICC 50 General Purpose Controller FADER 4 MIDICC 51 General Purpose Controller FADER 5 MIDICC 52 Undefined FADER 6 MIDICC 53 Undefined Double precision, MSB (Note that both LSB and MSB must be sent for double precision) FADER 1 MIDICC 16 General Purpose Controller FADER 2 MIDICC 17 General Purpose Controller FADER 3 MIDICC 18 General Purpose Controller FADER 4 MIDICC 19 General Purpose Controller FADER 5 MIDICC 20 Undefined FADER 6 MIDICC 21 Undefined #1 #2 #3 #4 #1 #2 #3 #4 MSB value indicates the actual double parameter change. So sending a LSB will not change the value, but only cache this value for later use when receiving the MSB part. The LSB must therefore be sent before the MSB. 14 FRAME - SYSTEM - MAIN Setting up Make sure to select MIDI channel settings corresponding to the channels your external controller is using for each Engine. How to record/playback MIDI data into/from DigiDesign Protools 5. x ?Recording · On the TC Icon go to the Frame/System/Main/MIDI page, and set up the Send/Receive parameters as follows: Send CC Receive CC : ON : OFF · Make sure that in the Protools MIDI menu, the MIDI THRU function is disabled to avoid a MIDI loop while in recording mode (as explained in the previous column). · Make sure you have your MIDI Input devices correctly configured in Protools. · Create new MIDI Track · Set the MIDI Output channel of that track in the Mixer window · Add New MIDI controllers, and choose the right Controller numbers from the list (see next page) · Record the MIDI automation data using the Icon faders or external MIDI faders/knobs A few things to take into consideration when using the TC Icon Faders to record automation into your sequencer: Make sure that the record enabled MIDI track does not echo back the MIDI Input to the System 6000. Otherwise the System 6000 will receive double MIDI CC values, which creates a MIDI loop and un-smooth automation data. [. . . ] Step/Adjust Range: Frame, 1 Second, 10 Seconds, 1 min. , 10 min. Use the Step parameter to select Adjust range and the Adjust parameter to increase/decrease the time. Device 23 SMPTE This parameter selects which Mainframe connected to the LAN you are working on. Device numbers 1-8, corresponds to the Device position at the Select page. [. . . ]