User Manual

User's Guide Fireface UFX II © RME

Examples for sending MIDI strings:

- Set input 1 to 0 dB: B0 66 68

- Set input 17 to maximum attenuation: B1 66 0

- Set playback 1 to maximum: B4 66 7F

- Set Output 16 to 0 dB: B8 75 68

Note

: Sending MIDI strings requires to use programmer's logic for the MIDI channel, starting

with 0 for channel 1 and ending with 15 for channel 16.

Further functions:

- Trim Gains On: BC 66 xx (BC = MIDI channel 13, xx = any value)

- Trim Gains Off: BC 66 xx or select a submix

Select submix (fader) in third row:

- channel 1/2: BC 68/69 xx

- channel 3/4: BC 6A/6B xx

etc.

Input Gain control is available via CC9, value range as the gain itself (up to 65). The MIDI

channel determines the controlled channel, from 1 to 16 (UFX: 9 to 12). For this to work, Enable

MIDI Control in the Options menu has to be activated.

The Reverb and Echo User Presets can be changed via MIDI CC: B2 0C nn for Reverb preset

1 to 16, B3 0C nn for Echo preset 1 to 16

28.6 Stand-Alone MIDI Control

When not connected to a computer, the Fireface UFX II can be controlled directly via MIDI. The

stand-alone MIDI control mode is activated in the unit’s menu Options, HW Op-

tions/Diagnosis, Standalone MIDI.

Note

: When not needed the stand-alone MIDI operation should not be active, as the unit will

react on MIDI notes after power-on, and will also send MIDI notes.

Control is performed via both the Mackie Control protocol and some standard MIDI functions

(see below). In stand-alone mode not all functions known from TotalMix are available, because

some of them aren't hardware, but software routines. Functions like Talkback, Mono, Solo, rela-

tive ganging of the faders, Monitor Main and Monitor Phones are realized by complex software

code, therefore not available in stand-alone MIDI control operation.

Still many functions, and especially the most important functions to control the Fireface UFX II,

are implemented in hardware, thus available also in stand-alone mode:

• All faders and pans of the first and third row

• Mute of the input signal per channel

• Ganging via 'Select'

• Choice of the routing destination, i.e. the current submix

• Sending of LED and display data to the MIDI controller

The second row (software playback) is skipped. The Fireface UFX II sends display data as brief

information, enabling an easy navigation through lines and rows. Other data like PAN and mis-

cellaneous status LEDs are supported as well.