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Old 20.04.2017, 03:30 PM
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A bit late to answer here, but...

This is a throwback to the early days of MIDI. There were standard controller assignments for a lot of things (list here http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/cntrlnumb.html)

#6 - Data was just that... lots of synths had a 'data entry' slider or wheel and to keep some semblance of a standard, they all mapped to 6 just for consistency.
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