Behringer U-Control UMX490 Owner's Manual

U-CONTROL UMX610/UMX490 User Manual

As already mentioned in previous chapters, the ASSIGN Mode is a powerful tool to 

optionally reconfigure the UMX into an ultra-comfortable controller. 
The basic logic of the allocation process has been introduced to you in Chapter 3 

“Control Elements and Connections”. In the following we will offer you more 

detailed information to enable you to use the UMX even more efficiently.

4.2.1  Setting the global channel
The UMX recognizes two separate classifications in regard to MIDI channels. 

There is a GLOBAL CHANNEL and 16 SINGLE CHANNELs. 
The GLOBAL MIDI CHANNEL is the channel through which all MIDI commands are 

sent in the factory setting: messages by various control elements, as well as the 

Note On and Note Off commands. To change this channel, proceed as follows:
1)  Press the ASSIGN button and hold it down.
2)  Press the  

  key.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4)  Define the GLOBAL CHANNEL by operating one of the keys  ( CH 1 )  through 

  on the keyboard.

5)  Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, 

please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. 

The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

4.2.2  Individual channel assignment
The assignment of individual control elements to defined channels is useful if you 

want to control several external devices independently from each other.

Example:
You are playing synthesizer A through channel 2 with the keyboard and have a 

sequencer program controlling another synthesizer B through channel 5. You can 

now control the filter frequency of device B through one of the eight jog/shuttle 

controls in real time and simultaneously continue to play device A without 

changing the filter frequency.
1)  Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2)  Activate the control element, for which another channel than the 

GLOBAL CHANNEL is to be set. If this is a controller or fader, briefly move the 

control element; when you have decided on a push-button, press this push-

button once. The UMX now “knows” which control element you would like to 

assign to a SINGLE CHANNEL.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4)  Press one of the 16 channel keys  ( CH 1 )  through  ( CH 16 ).
5)  Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, 

please select the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. 

The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

4.2.3  Global channel assignment
1)  Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2)  Activate the control element for which the GLOBAL CHANNEL is to be set. 

If this is a controller or fader, briefly move the control element; when you 

have decided on a push-button, press this push-button once. The UMX 

now “knows” to which control element you would like to assign a 

GLOBAL CHANNEL.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button.
4)  Press the  ( GLOBAL )  key.
5)  Finally, press the ENTER key. In order to discard your assignments, 

please press the CANCEL key or press the ASSIGN push-button again. 

The ASSIGN LED will go off in all 3 cases.

4.2.4  The panic key combination
Imagine that you have been working continuously on one song for several hours 

and a note suddenly “hangs up”. If you now execute a PANIC command, a sound 

producing device receiving this command becomes silent immediately.
1)  Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2)  Press one of the two PANIC keys,  

  or  

.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button. The device will automatically return to the 

normal play mode.

4.2.5  The snapshot send command
The SNAPSHOT command triggers the transmission of all parameters including 

their current values. All control element assignments as well as their temporary 

settings on the respective channels are transmitted to the MIDI OUT socket and to 

the USB output of the UMX.
It is possible by this method to transfer the complete UMX mapping to a 

sequencer software at the beginning of a song. This is to make sure the song 

is played with the last valid controller values. Apart from this, the SNAPSHOT 

allows you to reset the correct values in an external device where parameters 

have shifted.
1)  Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2)  Press the  

  key on the keyboard.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button. The device automatically returns to the 

normal play mode.

4.2.6  Local off
The LOCAL OFF in the UMX has the effect that value entries made via the control 

elements are neither transmitted to the MIDI OUT socket nor to the USB OUT. It is 

therefore possible in the LOCAL OFF mode, for example, to read just the rotary 

controls without transmitting data to the generally selected external devices.
1)  Press the ASSIGN push-button and hold it down.
2)  Press the  

  key.

3)  Release the ASSIGN push-button again and complete the desired settings on 

the control elements.

4)  Then, press the ENTER key or the CANCEL key. The LED of the ASSIGN key 

goes off in both cases and you are in normal play mode again.