MORTRIX User Manual
Welcome to Mortrix, the MIDI controller designed for creative musicians, offering unparalleled flexibility and ease of use.
This guide will walk you through Mortrix's powerful features, allowing you to harness its potential to the fullest.
This is a living document that will change in line with software updates and newly added features.
MORTRIX was designed with the intention of creating a MIDI foot controller that was flexible, powerful and most importantly: easy to use! This is why Mortrix is based around a huge touch screen, giving you easy access to every function and providing great overview, without relying on external devices or tools. Everything you need is right there, on the front of Mortrix.
As mentioned, the touch screen is the starting point for all editing, setup and control. The footswitches around the screen are used for navigation and control during performance. The top and bottom rows select and activate Scenes or Presets, and the left and right footswitches are used for navigation between screens and pages.
In terms of content, Mortrix structures data into Scenes, which contains Presets, which in turn sends MIDI Messages under various conditions. There are also a few other types of data in Mortrix, but we’ll save those for later.
Scenes are essentially just containers of Presets and serve to help you organise your presets. How you organise your presets are completely up to you, but it could be by band, by set, by song, by device or sound, or even be season of the year. Completely up to you. Only one scene can be active at a time. Exiting a scene will deactivate all the active presets inside the Scene.
Presets are essential structures in Mortrix because they manage almost all sending of MIDI messages. Presets are either activated or deactivated and responds to changes in activation as well as other events while in the activated state. Activating and deactivating a preset is done by pressing the footswitch aligned with the on-screen tile representing the Preset.
The basics of a Preset include sending MIDI Messages when it gets activated and sending another set of messages when deactivated. While in the activated state presets can also send messages controlled by expression pedals, by internal step sequencers and by self-running LFOs and Envelopes.
Lets jump in and create some basic scenes and presets in this Basic Walkthrough.