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6. Assigning MIDI CCs

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Zebra CM allows for extensive MIDI CC assignments and to keep things simple this is handled via two additional pages. To get started, select the cogwheel in the top-right hand corner and from the small menu, select the option marked L.

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This launches the MIDI CC overlay page. Here all the MIDI assignable parameters are shown with a coloured outline. There are loads to choose, including the modulation depth dots mentioned on the last page. To assign a MIDI CC, select a parameter and the outline will turn white. Simply move your desired MIDI controller to send some data.

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If this has worked, you should now see your target parameter moving as you send MIDI data. Here we’ve assigned a CC33 to the oscillator filter knob. You’ll notice that the control colour in the MIDI overlay is now filled in.

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You can, of course, assign multiple CCs and the same CC to different parameters. This can get a bit confusing as the overlay does not indicate which CC is which. If you want a bit more information there is a second MIDI CC page and this is accessed as before from the cogwheel menu.

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The MIDI Table provides a list of MIDI CC assignments and you’ll see the list includes our oscillator filter assignment. However, you can also edit the list including changing the CC number, MIDI channel, adjusting the data resolution and selecting modes best suited to normal and encoder type knobs .

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Finally, as mentioned, Zebra CM now includes two user-definable modulation sources – Ctrl A and B – set in the preferences panel. However, within the MIDI Table page you can actually set up ‘per-plugin instance’ settings, and these actually override global preference settings. Here we’ve set CtrlA to CC34.