Axiom 25 Knob Assignments

I have been attempting to assign some knobs on my Axiom 25 to Logic controls as follows:
Volume Controller 91
Pan Controller 93
Channel EQ Lo Shelf Gain Controller 5
Channel EQ Peak 1 Gain Controller 10
I go through the Learn Mode process and turn it off. However, when I twirl the knobs after that only Peak 1 Gain always works. The others sometimes work and sometimes do not. All of the assignments are for the Selected Channel. I have tried this using both software instrument tracks and audio tracks. When I use software instrument tracks the knob that sends Controller 10 events will change Pan and another knob that sends Controller 7 events will change volume, even though these knobs have not been defined using Learn Mode. So it looks that that Logic is reserving the use of standard MIDI controllers, even though I cannot find any documentation on that. Can anyone tell me what is going on?

Unfortunately, that's how it works. Only the on-screen keys work with the internal arpeggiator.
If your keyboard has an onboard arpeggiator, that may work. For example, I use an Akai LPK25 external keyboard that has an arpeggiator that can be turned on or off. This works fine with Garageband.

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