User Manual

User's Guide Fireface UFX+ © 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+ 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+,

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+ 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.