The Super Faders are designed to be assignable using "MIDI Learn". Essentially there are four messages that each fader produces:
Code:
|0---------------64-------------127| CC 1
| 0------64-----127| CC 2
|off|on----------------------------| note A
|off----------------------------|on| note B
Reading from left to right, the first CC increases from 0 to 127 in the normal way. Once you reach the halfway mark the Smart Fader will send out two messages at once:
[CC1, CC2]
and if you are using MIDI Learn on Ableton or Traktor the learn function will recognize CC2 as it's the most recently sent message. When you ht the top of the range the Smart Fader will send out:
[ CC1, CC2, NoteB]
in that order. MIDI Learn will remember NoteB as that's the most recently sent message. At the bottom of the range the Smart Fader sends
[CC1, NoteA]
so MIDI Learn will recognize NoteA.
So long as you are aware of where in the range you are producing messages while you're using MIDI Learn you can completely map an entire Smart Fader without having to resort to manually inputting MIDI values.
As for what to use these notes for, generally NoteA is useful for turning on and off Effects so the bottom of the CC range disables an effect entirely. NoteB is useful for turning on "hold" effects so that moving a CC to the top of the range initiates, say, a reverb hold. The main CC value should be your main effect like Reverb or Echo and the second CC would be something like Flange or Overdrive that will push the normal effect into interesting directions as you play with the range.
That's the theory, try it out with your own mappings.
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