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firmware v1

Voes Midi Controllers

mc-

5jr

, mc

-5 &

-10

user manual

v 1.0.23

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Introduction

The

MC-5jr, MC-5

and

MC-10

are compact, intelligent and user-friendly Midi Controllers.

Common features:



7-pin MIDI out



Power: 7-9v AC/DC 500mA (2.1mm connector or Midi-7)

(power supply not included)



USB connection for easy-to-use editor



4 commands for each button



17 available commands: none, PC, CC on/off, CC off/on, CC on only, CC off only, CC custom,
Expr 1 CC swap, Button on/off, Scenes, Bank up/down, Program up/down, Page select, All
Other Leds Off, Bank Select.



Advanced commands: Global, Steps and Groups



2 pages and press-and-hold function



Suited for scenes (

Fractal Audio Systems

™)

MC-5jr unique features:



5 hardware buttons, 6 leds (5 bicolor)



No Expression Pedal



No LCD display



2 pages with each 5 custom
programmable software buttons



Dimensions approx.: 40cm x 5,5cm



Weight approx.: 480gr

MC-10 unique features:



10 hardware buttons,
11 leds (10 bicolor)



2 inputs for Expression Pedals



2x16 Big LCD display



2 pages with each 10 custom
programmable software buttons



Auto engage/disengage Expr. Pedal 1



Dimensions approx.: 25cm x 15cm



Weight approx.: 890gr

MC-5 unique features:



5 hardware buttons, 6 leds (5 bicolor)



1 input for Expression Pedal



2x16 Normal LCD display



2 pages with each 5 custom
programmable software buttons



Auto engage/disengage Expr. Pedal 1



Dimensions approx.: 18cm x 11,5cm



Weight approx.: 470gr

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Installation

Download the latest editor, driver, firmware and manual on

www.voes.be.

Unzip the file.

Connect the

MC-5jr/5/10

to your computer (Windows 7 or higher).

Let Windows detect the device (it will report driver not found). If a window pops up asking to
search for a driver, just close it or click

Cancel

Run

Voes MC-driver

(located in the folder

manual and driver

Do not update if asked.
Select

libusb-win32 (v1.2.6.0)

and click Install Driver.

Start

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If you get an error, you will need to install

Microsoft Dot Net Framework 4

or higher .

(

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851

)

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The Editor

Instead of using precious resources for editing on the hardware, which is a PITA to use, we thought it
would be better to give you an excellent, easy to use Editor and extra features.

The

MC-5jr/5/10

has 10/20 software buttons, divided over 2 pages. Each button has up to 4

commands. As there are only 5/10 physical buttons, there has to be a way to select the

other

5/10

buttons. You can do this by either creating a

Page

button, which toggles between buttons 1-5/1-10

and 6-10/11-20, or by using press-and-hold to toggle each button separately. A combination of both
is also a possibility.

3.1 Overview

The

MC-5jr/5/10

has the same layout as the hardware, making programming a breeze.

MC-5jr

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3.2 Switching between MC-5jr, MC-5 and MC-10

You can switch between MC versions in the top right corner. The chosen version is saved on data-
files you create. Data-files are compatible and exchangeable between MC-5jr, MC-5 and MC-10.

3.3 Tab-pages

In the top left corner you can find the tabs

Page 1, Page 2, Global

and

Presets

Page 1

gives you an overview of buttons 1-5/1-10,

Page 2

of buttons 6-10/11-20.

Global

tab is for editing Global Settings, see section 4.

Presets

tab is discussed in section 5.

(not available on the MC-5jr)

3.4 The Button

On other Midi Controllers, a button has 6 parameters for each command.

(Channel On, Command

On, Value On, Channel Off, Command Off, Value Off).

We reduced this to 2 parameters: Channel and

Command, making programming easier.

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Each button can be

named

. If the first command is not a Program Change, this text is displayed on

the second line on the

MC-5/10

LCD. Every button can handle 4 commands. Each command has its

own

Type, PC/CC/Nr

and

(midi channel).

17 different

Types

are available (10 on command 2, 3 and 4).

None

None does nothing! If steps is active, this command will be skipped.

Program Change

Program Change transmits a program change

on a midi channel

(1-16).

Depending on

Preset Offset

Global Settings (see section 4

), PC range is 0-127 or 1-128.

You can change the name of the first 64 presets

(see section 5)

P002 Vox AC30
Solo

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CC on/off

ON sends a control change

(1-127) on

(1-16) with

Value

127

(maximum).

OFF sends exactly the same

with

Value 0

(minimum).

CC off/on

This is the opposite of the previous type.

ON sends a control change

(1-127) on

(1-16) with

Value

(minimum).

OFF sends exactly the same

with

Value 127

(maximum).

CC on only

This type always sends

Value 127

on each press on

(1-127) on

(1-16). This command is

ideal for Tap-tempo.

The corresponding led will blink briefly.

CC off only

This type always sends

Value 0

on each press on

(1-127) on

(1-16).

The corresponding led will blink briefly.

CC custom

A bit different is

CC custom

. It points to a custom

and

Value

command found in

Global

Settings

(

see section 4).

E.g.

CC custom 3

sends

CC 15

with

Value 64

Ch 9.

The corresponding led will blink briefly. A total of 8 CC customs are available.

Expr1 CC Swap

(not available on the MC-5jr)

Expr1 CC Swap is a nice feature to change your Expr1 Pedal, e.g. from Wah to Volume.

ON replaces the

and

of the regular Expr1 settings.

OFF returns to the regular settings found in

Global Settings (see section 4

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Button on/off

Turns another Button On or Off.

Caution!

You can create and endless loop. E.g. Button 1 turns Button 2 On and Button 2 turns

Button 1 On.

Scenes

(only available as first command)

The

MC-5jr/5/10

is capable of handling scenes, a

Fractal Audio Systems

™ feature.

When a Scene button is activated, all other Scene buttons will be turned off. Scenes CC
(default CC34) can be changed in

Global Settings

(

see section 4)

Bank Down / Bank Up

(only available as first command)

Bank Down/Up selects the first preset number and decreases/increases it with the count of
all the presets on both pages.

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E.g. buttons 1, 2 , 3 are defined as

Program Change

Buttons with respective values 11, 12, 13.

If you push button 5

Bank Up

, the

MC-5jr/5/10

will seek the first PC value (11) and will add

the count of all PC buttons (3) giving you 11 + 3 = 14, 15, 16.

On the first line of the LCD, Bank and preset range are shown.
Second line shows 7 characters of the first preset name and the
last preset name of the bank to help you orientate.

Preset Down/Preset Up

(only available as first command)

Preset Down/Up is a function that is not often included in other Midi Controllers. You can
decrease/increase the current preset number. Only useful when 0 or 1 preset is programmed
on a Page.

If no preset is programmed on a Page, default start preset is 1 on Midi Channel 1.

Page

(only available as first command)

There are two ways to select another page.

Using a

Page

button toggles between page 1 and 2, and changes all buttons at once. The

page-LED (above LED 3 on the

MC-5jr

/ along the LCD on the

MC-5/10

) will be ON to indicate

you’re on page 2.

(Be aware that in order to go back you need to program a

Page

button on each page.)

Or you can change one button to its respective button on the other page by press-and-hold
(see

section 3.5)

. E.g. press button 2 activates button 2, press-and-hold button 2 activates

button 12. press-and-hold button 2 again activates button 2.

Buttons on Page 1 are indicated by a blue or green led. Buttons on Page 2 by a red led.

If the first command is a Program Change the preset name will be displayed on the first line
of the

MC-5/10

LCD. Presets on Page 2 have “*” as prefix.

P002 Vox AC30

P012*Badger18

Bank 2 P9-16
Supro ..Dumble

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All Other Leds Off

In some cases, there might be a conflict with the visual leds on/off layout and the actual
on/off state of the connected musical instrument. Using the

All Other Leds Off

command can

solve this problem.

Bank Select

(only available as first command)

When clicking on a

Bank Select

button, all leds will turn red and all buttons are connected to

their respective Bank number. E.g. clicking on button 3 will bring you to bank 3. After
selection, buttons will go back to their programmed state.

3.5 Global, Steps, Group, Press-and-Hold

Global

Global buttons in On status, will be retriggered on a Program Change. Global buttons are only global
on their page.

When using groups, this function is not available.

Steps

When activated, only one command will be executed. When using groups, this function is not
available.

E.g. on the left:

first press

command

second press command

third press

command

fourth press

command

(4 is skipped since it’s command is set to

None

)

fifth press

command

…

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With Steps you can’t use

Expr 1 CC Swap

and

Button on/off

. These commands will be changed to

nothing.

Reset Steps

is enabled, which you can find in

Global Settings (see section 4

), steps will reset to the

first step after 1 second of non-use.

Groups

You can group buttons in one of

different button groups. Selecting a button group changes the

color of the button (on the editor!) into yellow (1), orange (2), green (3) or purple (4).

If a button is pressed, which is part of a button group, all other buttons in that group will be turned
OFF and then the selected button will be activated. It’s a very nice feature if you have FXs that are
similar but never used together (like different drives) and this feature will avoid tap-dancing.

Group buttons are only grouped together on their respective page.

When using groups,

global

and

steps

are not available because it can cause conflicts.

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Press-and-Hold

Using a Page button toggles between buttons 1-5/1-10 and 6-10/11-20.

You can also toggle each button separately by press-and-hold.

When activated, it will change a button to the respective button on the other page by press-and-
hold. E.g. press-and-hold button 4 activates button 14, press-and-hold button 12 activates button 2.
The press-and-hold time is approximately 0.5 seconds (short) or 1 second (long) depending on the
setting in

Global Settings (see section 4

Each button on the 1

page can be set to one of three types:

Block

: press-and-hold does not work.

Momentary

: press-and-hold will activate the button on the 2

page once and will return back to the

page on the next press.

Hold

: press-and-hold will activate the button on the 2

page and stay there.

Buttons on the 2

page are always type hold.

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Global Settings

4.1 Expr

Expr 1 Pedal

(1-127) on midi channel

(1-16). Do not forget to calibrate your pedal!

(see section 7)

Expr 1 Auto On

E.g. Wah Freq is controlled with CC 1, Wah On/Off is controlled with CC 85.

Instead of sacrificing a button to turn the Wah On/Off, you can use the

Auto On

feature.

Set Expr 1 Pedal CC to

and set Expr 1 Auto On

checked

and to CC

Moving Expression Pedal 1 higher than 5%, turns Wah On. If it is below 5%, it will turn Off.

Expr 2 Pedal

(only available on MC-10)

(1-127) on midi channel

(1-16). Do not forget to calibrate your pedal!

(see section 7)

(not available on the MC-5jr)

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4.2 Misc

Scenes

MC-5jr/5/10

is capable of handling scenes, a

Fractal Audio Systems

™ feature. Here you

define the Scenes CC (default 34).

Preset Offset

Set PC range to 0-127 or 1-128.

Reset Steps

If enabled, steps will return to the first step after 1 second of non-use.

Press and Hold

Choose between a short or long time to engage press and hold.

4.3 Custom

A normal CC on the

MC-5jr/5/10

sends

Value 0

(minimum) or

127

(maximum). In most cases this is

sufficient.

However sometimes you might want to have different values. You can save eight custom

(0-127)

and

value

(0-127) values. On a button you can select one of those with a

CC custom

command.

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Presets

Here you can name the first 32 presets with 16 characters or the first 46 presets with 10 characters
or the first 64 presets with 8 characters. Your choise!

Preset names 32 x 16

Whenever a Program Change is the first command of a button, this name will be displayed on the

MC-5/10

LCD. Presets higher than 32 will be displayed as

“Preset xxx”

. Presets on Page 2 have “*”

added.

e.g.:

(not available on the MC-5jr)

Hook Classic 34
Preset 007

Diezel VH4
Preset 012*

Preset 033

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Preset names 46 x 10 or 64 x 8

Whenever a Program Change is the first command of a button, this name will be displayed on the
first line of the

MC-5/10

LCD. Presets higher than 46 (46x10) / 64 (64x8) will be displayed as

“Preset

xxx”

. Presets on Page 2 have “*” as prefix.

e.g.:

Importing preset names

Use the

import

button in the right corner to import

preset names from any

TXT

CSV

file.

One preset per line. Names will be automatically truncated.

P007 Hook

P012*Diezel

P065 Preset 065

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Load/Save/Update

You can save and load settings from/to the computer and from/to

MC-5jr/5/10

Data-files are compatible and exchangeable between

MC-5jr

MC-5

and

MC-10

When sending data-files to

MC-5jr/5/10,

please wait until the

MC-5jr/5/10

reboots.

Updating firmware

Most recent firmware and software can be found on

www.voes.be

Booting the

MC-5/10

will display the installed firmware:

Another way to find the firmware version (especially useful for the

MC-5jr

) is by clicking on the logo in the left bottom corner. An

info window with the editor version will appear. If data is loaded
from the

MC-5jr/5/10

both firmware version and connected

hardware are shown.

When updating firmware, keep in mind that the firmware file needs
to be placed in the program directory.

A batch program will be started. Wait until it stops, and close the
window.

(We could make it auto close, but if any error appears it’s

easier to report this way.)

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Calibrating Expression Pedals

Before using an expression pedal, it needs to be calibrated. This can of course not be done on the
editor but on only the

MC-5jr/5/10

itself. You only need to do this once (Calibrating values are saved

in memory).

Important!

After you calibrate your pedals, use the editor to back up your settings.

To activate the calibrating menu, use following instructions:

MC-5

move expr. pedal 1

a progress bar moves on the LCD

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MC-10 expr pedal 1 MC-10 expr pedal 2

move expr. pedal 1

a progress bar moves on the LCD

move expr. pedal 2

a progress bar moves on the LCD

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