Behringer MOTOR 49 - 9. Motor Fader Usage; 9.1 General Information; 9.2 Working with Motor Faders in MC Mode

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9. How to make the best use of
motor faders
9.1 General Information:
Your MOTÖR Keyboard oers 8 + 1 touch-sensitive motor faders.
It is important to understand that compatible DAW applications will expect 3
separate MIDI events for properly reacting to a fader move:
1. Touch-ON event indicating that a nger is touching a specic fader (e.g. for
switching from automation read to write mode).
2. Some double-precision value changes representing the fader position.
3. Touch-OFF event indicating that the nger is no longer touching the fader
(e.g. for switching back to automation read mode).
Your MOTÖR keyboard can be used in two fundamentally dierent operation
modes: “MIDI” and “MC.”
As the MC mode relies on 100% compatibility to the Mackie Control protocol,
there is no way of editing or changing any of the MIDI assignments. Everything is
predened in the protocol.
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 protocol “MC” mode uses MIDI note on/o events assigned to
the fader touch on/o events, and this is also the default setting in “MIDI” mode.
Refer to section 9.3 below, where switching the fader touch event o is described
as an example.
By default, the touch command is assigned to MIDI note on/o. This will be
required in MC mode (following the Mackie Control protocol), 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 oers “Mackie Control” as a Control Surface, by
simply assigning it to the MOTÖR I/O ports.
(How to assign the MOTÖR in a DAW using the MC mode is described in chapter 8
of this manual.
9.2 Working with the motor faders
(in MC mode)
2nd: Move
1st: Touch
When you move a fader, you should rst touch the fader cap to announce a
possible fader move to the DAW, before actually starting the movement. Without
this announcement, the motor might try to “ght” against your movement in
order to keep the DAW’s current fader position. 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 nger easily.
Move up to 4 faders
simultaneously
Move more than 8 faders
simultaneously
Fading SLOW
Fading FAST
When you move a fader, try to do it slowly. Smooth fades are more musical than
hard cuts or level jumps. 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 updates or even temporarily wrong
fader positions in the DAW. Since the DAW owns the control of motor faders,
these might ip back to their position in the DAW.
◊ You will have the best results with slow movements on no more than 4
faders at a time. Note: This recommendation is valid for both MIDI and
MC operation modes.