Audio Damage Axon - Manual (Page 21)

MIDI Controllers
Axon responds to MIDI continuous controller messages. You can use hardware MIDI controllers, such as MIDI
slider boxes or the knobs found on some MIDI keyboards, to adjust Axon’s parameters.
Axon has a simple “MIDI Learn” mode for assigning its onscreen controls to MIDI controllers. To assign a
control to a MIDI controller:
1. Hold down the SHIFT and CTRL keys on your PC’s keyboard, or SHIFT and CMD keys if you’re using a Mac,
and click once on the control. A white box will be drawn around the control to indicate that it is ready
to learn which MIDI controller it will be assigned to.
2. Move the MIDI controller to send a continuous controller message—turn the knob, press the button,
move the slider, whatever is appropriate.
3. The white square will disappear. Now the control will move when you manipulate the MIDI controller.
When assigning a MIDI controller to Axon’s XY controls (the FM and Timbre voice controls as well as the
Filter/Feedback control), the XY control will move horizontally in response to the MIDI controller. Hold down
the
OPTION key on your Mac keyboard, or the ALT key on a PC keyboard, to assign a MIDI controller to move
the XY control vertically. You can also use the option or alt key to assign a controller to the peak level of the
Pitch EG and the release curvature of the Amp EG.
Axon waits until it has received two consecutive continuous controller messages with the same controller
number before it makes an assignment. This filters out extraneous data sent by some MIDI controllers. If you
are assigning a button or switch on a MIDI controller, you may have to press or move the switch twice before
Axon recognizes the controller and assigns it to the desired knob.
 To assign a different MIDI controller to a control, repeat the same procedure using a different
controller.
 To cancel MIDI Learn mode without assigning a controller, hold down the
SHIFT
and
CTRL
keys (
SHIFT
and CMD keys on a Mac) and click in any empty area in Axon’s window (i.e., don’t click on another
control). The white box will disappear.
 To remove a MIDI controller assignment from a control, SHIFT and CTRL keys, ( SHIFT and CMD keys on a
Mac) click on the control once so that the white box appears, then click again on the same control.