Doepfer Pocket Control User Manual

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MIDI Controller

pocket Control

Owners Manual

Written by Andy Horrell

(C) 2000

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Revision 1.0

Doepfer pocket Control

Contents

Contents...............................................................................2

Foreword ..............................................................................3

Connections .........................................................................4

Functions of the LED ...........................................................4

Functions of the Snapshot switch..........................................5

Functions of the DIP switches on the rear panel ...................6

Notes

List of the Presets..................................................................7

Description of the Presets......................................................9

Troubleshooting....................................................................18

Creating your own P resets.....................................................19

System Exclusive Format.......................................................20

All trademarks recognized as belonging to their respective owners.

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56 38 NRPN102 MSB
57 39 NRPN102 LSB
58 3A NRPN120 MSB [EMU ABS]
59 3B NRPN120 LSB [EMU ABS]
60 3C NRPN127 MSB [Soundblaster AWE 32/64]
61 3D NRPN127 LSB [Soundblaster AWE 32/64]
62 3E free
63 3F free
64 40 XG Drum Pitch Coarse
65 41 XG Drum Pitch Fine
66 42 XG Drum Level
67 43 XG Drum Alternate Group
68 44 XG Drum Pan
69 45 XG Drum Reverb Send
70 46 XG Drum Chorus Send
71 47 XG Drum Variation Send
72 48 XG Drum Key Assign
73 49 XG Drum Receive Note Off
74 4A XG Drum Receive Note On
75 4B XG Drum Filter Cutoff Frequency
76 4C XG Drum Filter Resonance
77 4D XG Drum EG Attack Rate
78 4E XG Drum EG Decay 1 Rate
79 4F XG Drum EG Deacy 2 Rate
80 50 XG Multipart
81 51 XG A/D
82 52 XG Effect
83 53 XG Effect 2-byte
84 54 XG Reverb Type
85 55 XG Chorus Type
86 56 XG Variation Type
87 57 XG EQ
88 58 XG Insertion Effect 1
89 59 XG Insertion Effect 2
90 5A XG Insertion Effect 1Type
91 5B XG Insertion Effect 2 Type
92 5 C free
93 5D free
94 5E free
95 5F free
96 60 GS Effect
97 61 MC303 Global
98 62 MC303 Channel

99 63 free
100 64 Strings
101 65 free

. . . Parameter 2 values between 101 and 126 are not defined

. . . (Reserved for future expansion)
126 7E free
127 7F No Event

Parameter 3:

Range 00 ~ 7F The meaning of parameter 3 depends on what parameter 2 is set to.

FORWARD

How long have you wanted to:

Control your (software) synthesizer without having to use virtual faders,
and having to look at a computer screen and use a mouse?

Use the full capability of your computer’s built-in soundcard?
Have realtime control for synths that have limited or no realtime controls

Could the control possibilities of your master keyboard be improved? N ow it’s time to discover
new uses for real time control by using the Doepfer Pocket Control.

The Pocket Control

The Pocket Control (r eferr ed to as the pocketC) is a device, that everyone could
use, such as for the computer in the studio or for live use in professional and semi-professional
situations.

What can the pocketC do?

The pocketC can assign each of the 16 control knobs to individual Midi events.
This Midi event controlled can be selected from a list of preset options (giving over 16,000
different event combinations), such as controllers, mono & poly aftertouch, pitch bend, RPN/
NRPN, XG-SysEx, GS/XG controller, program change and even note on/off events. These
events can be from any of the 16 Midi channels, or the master channel (which allows easy
selection of the controlling MIDI channel). The permutation of possibilities is therefore up to
17 (channel options) * 16,000 (event combinations), which is over 250,000 possible
combinations! The system is also ready to take even further SysEx messages and data formats in
future updates.

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The low cost of the pocketC allows for applications where multiple pocketC’s can be used
chained together.

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Connections

The pocketC does not have a built in power supply (not enough r oom left inside!),
but uses an external adaptor which can be from 7v to 12v and at least 100mA. The
connection polarity is positive inner. Although the pocketC has a built in protection
diode for protection against incorrect polarity, the pocketC can still be damaged by
using an incorrect adaptor, so only use an approved adaptor and avoid using multi­polarity type adaptors with voltage level and polarity switching, as inadvertant settings
can cause problems.

Connect the MIDI out of the controlling keyboard to the MIDI IN of the
pocketC. The MIDI input also allows control of the pocketC, such as with program
changes to select presets, and to receive it’s own Sys-Ex messages for setting up the
128 preset memories (held in non-volatile memory).

Connect the MIDI OUT of the pocketC to the sequencer (computer) or sound
generator MIDI in. The pocketC merges the incoming data with it’s own data, so the
MIDI OUT is a data merge of MIDI in and data generated by the pocketC. There is
no use for a separate MIDI thru with this type of device. Note that if extremely large
Sys-Ex dumps are passed through the pocketC then it is advisable not to move any

pocketC knobs whilst this transmission is taking place, as the merge abilities of the
pocketC were not intended to work whilst this kind of intense transmission is taking

place.

If multiple pocketC’ s ar e being used then the MIDI connections can be chained

together so that all the pocketC’s produce one composite data from the last MIDI out in the
chain.

Functions of the LED

The LED indicates the status of the pocketC in various modes. For example,

under normal operation the LED indicates MIDI input activity, and also MIDI out
activity when moving the control knobs on the pocketC. The LED also indicates:-

Parameter 2: Event Definition

Decimal Hex Definition

0 00 Controller
1 01 Pitch Bend
2 02 Mono Aftertouch
3 03 Program Change
4 04 Poly Aftertouch
5 05 Note On
6 06 Note Off
707 free
8 08 RPN0 MSB

9 09 RPN0 LSB
10 0A RPN1 MSB
11 0B RPN1 MSB
12 0C free
13 0D free
14 0E RPN127 MSB
15 0F RPN127 LSB
16 10 NRPN0 MSB
17 11 NRPN0 LSB
18 12 NRPN1 MSB [XG Multi / GS]
19 13 NRPN1 LSB [XG Multi / GS]
20 14 NRPN8 MSB
21 15 NRPN8 LSB
22 16 NRPN9 MSB
23 17 NRPN9 LSB
24 18 NRPN10 MSB
25 19 NRPN10 LSB
26 1A NRPN20 MSB [XG Drum Instrument Cutoff]
27 1B NRPN20 LSB [X G Drum Instruemnt Cutoff]
28 1C NRPN21 MSB [XG Drum Instrument Resonance]
29 1D NRPN21 LSB [XG Drum Instrument Resonance]
30 1E NRPN22 MSB [XG Drum Instrument EG Attack]
31 1F NRPN22 LSB [XG Drum Instrument EG Attack]
32 20 NRPN23 MSB [XG Drum Instrument EG Decay]
33 21 NRPN23 LSB [XG Drum Instrument EG Decay]
34 22 NRPN24 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Pitch Coarse]
35 23 NRPN24 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Pitch Coarse]
36 24 NRPN25 MSB [XG Drum Instrument Pitch Fine]
37 25 NRPN25 LSB [XG Drum Instrument Pitch Fine]
38 26 NRPN26 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Level]
39 27 NRPN26 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Level]
40 28 NRPN28 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Pan]
41 29 NRPN28 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Pan]
42 2A NRPN29 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Reverb Send]
43 2B NRPN29 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Reverb Send]
44 2C NRPN30 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Chorus Send]
45 2D NRPN30 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Chorus Send]
46 2E NRPN31 MSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Variation Send]
47 2F NRPN31 LSB [XG/GS Drum Instrument Variation Send]
48 30 NRPN32 MSB
49 31 NRPN32 LSB
50 32 NRPN33 MSB
51 33 NRPN33 LSB
52 34 NRPN99 MSB
53 35 NRPN99 LSB
54 36 NRPN100 MSB
55 37 NRPN100 LSB

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