As has been already mentioned volume/CC7, expression/CC11 and pan/CC10 are standard. Also standard on most synths, both hard and soft, are reverb/CC91, chorus/CC93, breath/CC2 and sustain/CC64. They’re may be others as I’m not at my music computer and my memory isn’t what is used to be!

Many other CC numbers will control whatever your synth says it controls. Your synth(s) will have a midi implementation chart with it. That will tell you what CC number controls what effect. For instance my faders 1-7 are set at CC12 thru CC18. On my B4II synth they control the Native Instruments Hammond draw bars thus creating different organ sounds while on my Garritan Jazz and Big Band things like Vibrato, aftertouch, horn key clicks, sax tongue growl etc. So you see the same CC numbers control different things depending on what synths you are using.

The bottom line is that you have to know what CC numbers control on your synth then assign those numbers to your controller. It’s really not a complicated as it sounds. Your manuals are your friends.

I hope this helps.

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