User Manual

6. MIDI
In addition to the keyboard, almost all MatrixBrute's knobs, sliders, and wheels send
and respond to MIDI, so you can record and edit their movements in a DAW running
on a computer. That makes the instrument useful as a hands-on controller for external
instruments, not just a master keyboard.
MIDI can go in and out the USB port, the 5-pin DIN ports, both, or neither. All the MIDI
settings are in Arturia's MIDI Control Center Mac/PC program, which you download from
www.arturia.com. (See below.)
The sequencer and arpeggiator can lock to MIDI clock. They send MIDI notes, so you can
record and edit the notes they send in a DAW. Since the LFOs can lock to MIDI and then be
patched anywhere, effectively everything on the instrument can be in tempo.
6.1. MIDI Continuous Controller Assignments
In the graphic above, the numbers superimposed over knobs are all MIDI Continuous
Controllers (CC), so for example the Modulation wheel sends/receives MIDI CC#1, and Macro
knob 1 to its right sends/receives CC#11 (Expression).
The controls shown in blue, are standard 7 bit MIDI controls. The controls shown in yellow
are high resolution 14 bit MIDI controls.
While the Pitch wheel is unmarked, it is active; pitch isn't a CC in the MIDI protocol - it's a
separate command in the protocol. If you connect expression pedals 1 or 2 to the rear panel,
they have duplicate CC assignments to Macro knobs 3's and 4's (to the left of the keyboard).
The Sustain pedal input in the rear is CC#64, which is standard.
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