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Assigning a MIDI Note to a Button - Oxygen Series
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It is possible to configure a Button on the Oxygen Series (blue & silver) keyboards to send a Note On message when it is held down, and a Note Off message when it is released. 

This requires four values to be specified (values given are examples):

 

The following example configures a button to play MIDI note E4 while it is being held down and stop the note when the button is released.

  1. Press to select a button
  2. Press the Advanced button
  3. Press the Control Assign key
  4. Enter 147 using the number keys. This sets the button to trigger MIDI Notes
  5. Press the Enter key
  6. Press the Advanced button
  7. Press the Data 1 key (Pitch/Note parameter)
  8. Enter "64" using the number keys. This sets the button to play MIDI note 64 (E4)
  9. Press the Enter key
  10. Press the Advanced button
  11. Press the Data 2 key (Velocity Off)
  12. Enter 0 using the number keys. This sets the button to transmit a Note Off message with a release velocity value of zero.
  13. Press the Enter key
  14. Press the Advanced button
  15. Press the Data 3 key (Velocity On)
  16. Enter 100 using the number keys. This sets the button to transmit a Note On message with a velocity of 100 when pressed
  17. Press the Enter key


Please refer to the Appendix in the user guide for a list of MIDI Notes and the corresponding Note Numbers.

MIDI Note On/Off messages are sent on a specific MIDI Channel, which by default is Channel 1.  Please see this article for instructions on assigning an Oxygen control to a specific MIDI channel.  After programming your device, please refer to this article to store your changes to memory.