Doepfer Pocket Dial (device no longer available) - Manual (Page 4)

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User's Guide
Introduction
How long have you wanted to:
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Control your (software) synthesizer without having to use virtual faders, and having to look at a
computer screen and use a mouse?
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Use the full capability of your computer’s built-in soundcard?
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Have realtime control for synths that have limited or no realtime controls
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Could the control possibilities of your master keyboard be improved?
Now it’s time to discover new uses for real time control by using one of the Doepfer Pocket Devices
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The Pocket series are devices, 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 Pocket devices do?
They can assign each of the 16 controls 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 and 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 low cost of
the pocket devices allows for applications where multiple pocket unit's can be used chained together.
The difference between Pocket Control, Pocket Fader and Pocket Dial is the type of control:
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is equipped with 16 rotary potentiometers
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is equipped with 16 slide potentiometers (faders)
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is equipped with 16 endless rotary encoder (sometimes called alpha dials)
Special features of Pocket Dial compared with Pocket Control / Fader
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transmit absolute MIDI data in the range 0...127, i.e. the visible
position of the controlling element (rotary knob, fader knob) corresponds to the MIDI data sent by the
element in question. The only difference between Pocket Control and Pocket Fader is the type of
potentiometer. Pocket Control uses rotary potentiometers, Pocket Fader slide potentiometers.
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is able to transmit absolute or relative MIDI data. In the first case Pocket Dial transmits
absolute MIDI data in the range 0...127. Because of the type of controlling elements (endless encoders)
there is no visible feedback concerning the transmitted data. In the second case Pocket Dial transmits
only relative increment/decrement messages and does not "know" the absolute value that is generated
in the device controlled by Pocket Dial.