IBK 10CONTROL

Fader/MIDI Control Module with New Features

The special feature that distinguishes the 10CONTROL from other products on the market is the ability to control jump-free many parameters of hard- or softwaresynthesizers via midi. Much more expensive controllers use motorfaders to perform this feature. The 10CONTROL uses endless dials instead and through that it makes available the same functionallity for a much more reasonable price.

With jump-free controlling, you do not have to snap, catch or hold a button until you have reached a value with your fader before you slightly want to change it. You just select one of up to 100 pages and increase or decrease the value of your desired parameter.

The get the full advantage of these sophisticated features, the soft- or hardware to be controlled must be able to send initial values and it must keep the 10Control updated if the soft- or hardware itself changes a value, for example by recalling a new sound.

As presented at the Musikmesse Frankfurt, this is supported by

Generator and Reaktor of Native Instruments

Pulsar of Creamware

LOGIC of Emagic

Live of Ableton

The 10CONTROL is a versatile and tactile interface for all your MIDI equipment. Use it to control hard- and software synthesizers, virtual mixers and effects units, or to easily edit patches on synths and effects. The 10Control will become your central MIDI remote control device!

10 Rotary Encoders (continuous dials) plus 10 buttons with freely assignable functions such as Continuous Controller, NPRN, or SysEx-Learn

The user-defined labels of all 10 dials or buttons are simultaneously displayed with their values as a 30 segment bar on a backlit, alphanumeric LCD

Buttons can be used for the quick recall of pages, for example: recalling the LFO or Envelope section of a synthesizer

Over 100 pages with up to 10 dials and 10 buttons can be stored

After switching pages or after receiving data via MIDI-In, the last value of every dial is visible and may be edited, without 'jumping' or tracking problems

Save and load your own settings or use MIDI-DUMP to download ready-to-use setups

Usable as a console, or mounted in a 19" rack (3U)

Control of hard- and software synthesizers

Software synthesizers usually offer only the restraining and tedious possibility to change parameters through a mouse. Dial movements have to be repeatedly registered one by one. Intuitive control is simply impossible.

Most hardware synthesizers and their rack counterparts are built without any real tactile control surface, in order to save costs or space. But with 10Control this is no longer a problem.

If these instruments allow external control via MIDI, 10CONTROL offers the missing hardware control module you’ve always wanted. 10 continuous dials and 10 buttons may be assigned freely to any parameters and named individually. All parameters and their corresponding values are simultaneously shown on two spacious, illuminated, crystal-clear LCD displays. The Display button switches from showing the values of either all dials or all buttons. The configuration of dials and buttons can be saved as a ‘page’ and may be recalled at any time.

Further, for every dial on each page you can determine individually how much the value should vary according to the speed of the movement of the dial, as well as how many rotations are necessary to go from minimum to maximum!

Considering the multitude of parameters found on synthesizers today, 10 dials and 10 buttons won’t get you very far. That’s why it is possible to bundle as many Pages as you’d like together as a ‘Program’. The separate Pages can be recalled consecutively, or accessed individually by pushing one or more keys (i.e., recalling the sections of the LFO or the Envelope). After switching between pages you don’t have to waste time readjusting the dials, because they simply pick up from their last position. If the values were received via MIDI-In, this will happen without any disruption at all.

This same type of functionality can also be achieved for effects processing hardware as well. Several programs with numerous pages each can be assembled for a single effect unit: one program for all parameters of a reverb, another for those of delays or modulation effects etc.

By now you are familiar with two levels (Pages and Programs). Situated above both is another level called ‘Channel’, which sums up several programs for a device within your MIDI equipment to enable you to switch effortlessly between instruments. You may also (but don’t have to) assign a fixed MIDI channel to certain ‘Channels’.

For example, MIDI channel 1 could access your synthesizer 1. For this synthesizer you have created several Programs, (i.e. one to control the most important parameters during a live performance, another with all parameters for sound programming, etc.) every one of them offering a vast number of pages. Your multi-effects processor may be assigned to MIDI channel 2, with different programs for different effects. MIDI channel 3 would take care of your software synthesizer and so on... The possibilities are endless!

Despite the fact that you are able to create any required program to your liking and adapt it to your personal needs, we are ready to equip you with a broad variety of predefined setups that can be downloaded via MIDI-Dump from the Internet or from disc. New setups are constantly added to this list of programs and templates for all well-known equipment and ensure an easy start. Naturally, all of these programs may be modified and remodeled in any way and saved for future use.

Controls: 10 Continuous Dials / 21 Buttons / 1 Power Switch

Display: 2x Backlit Alphanumeric LCD (2x 40 char. each)

Jacks: 2x MIDI IN / 2x MIDI THRU / 1x MIDI OUT

Dimensions: 480 mm ( W ) x 120 mm ( D ) x 128 mm ( H ) / 19", 3U

Weight: 2,9 kg

Accessories: AC adapter, MIDI cable

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