Korg CX-3 owner manual Midi data dump, Transmission

Appendices

Local Control On setting

If you make connections as shown on the preceding page, you must turn on the Echo Back setting of the external MIDI sequencer or computer (so that the data it receives at MIDI IN will be retransmitted without change from MIDI OUT), and turn off the Local Control setting of the CX-3 (to disconnect the key- board section from the tone generator section).

When you play the keyboard of the CX-3, the data will be sent to the external MIDI sequencer or computer, and will be echoed back to sound the tone generator of the CX-3. In other words by turning the CX-3’s Local Control off, you can prevent notes from being sounded in duplicate; once from the keyboard and again from the echo-back.

To turn off Local Control, set the Global mode Group 4 “MIDI Local” parameter to Off.

If you are using the CX-3 by itself, you must turn Local Control on. (If this is off, playing the CX-3’s keyboard will produce no sound.)

Connecting a MIDI keyboard

If you wish to use the CX-3 in Normal mode, and use a MIDI keyboard connected to the MIDI IN connector to play the CX-3’s Lower tone generator, you will need to set the following parameters.

Set the transmit channel of your MIDI keyboard to match the receive channel of the CX-3 (set by the Global mode Group 2 “MIDI Lower Rx Ch” param- eter). This allows your MIDI keyboard to be used as the keyboard for the Lower tone generator.

If you also want to connect a sequencer, turn the Global mode Group 4 “Merge Lower Message” parameter On. Channel messages of the channel specified by the “MIDI Lower Rx Ch” will be con- verted into the channel specified by the “MIDI Lower Tx Ch” parameter, and transmitted.

Using a MIDI tone generator with velocity

The CX-3 is set to transmit note messages (with fixed velocity).

If you are using an external tone generator that is velocity-sensitive, you will need to set the following parameters.

Set the Group 2 “MIDI Upper 2nd Ch” and “MIDI Lower 2nd Ch” parameters to a setting other than Off. With this setting, note messages with velocity will be transmitted on the specified MIDI channel.

However since this would cause two note messages (with and without velocity) to be transmitted, turn the Global mode Group 2 “MIDI Upper Tx Ch” and “MIDI Lower Tx Ch” parameters Off. Now the note messages with fixed velocity will not be transmitted.

As an alternative to the above setting, you can set the “MIDI Upper 2nd Ch” and “MIDI Upper Tx Ch” channel settings and the “MIDI Lower 2nd Ch” and “MIDI Lower Tx Ch” channel settings so that they do not conflict, and set the receive channel of the con- nected MIDI device so that it can receive note mes-

28sages with velocity.

The CX-3 will sound even when you press a key lightly. In other words on the CX-3, a note message with fixed velocity will be transmitted when you press a key lightly. However a note message with velocity will not be transmitted until you press the key all the way. This means that if you have made settings to transmit note messages with velocity, there may be cases in which a note message is not transmit- ted even though the CX-3 has produced sound.

MIDI data dump

The CX-3 can transmit its internal settings to a connected MIDI data filer or to another CX-3 as exclusive data.

Transmission

While data is being transmitted, do not touch the CX-3’s keys, drawbars, or knobs, and never turn off the power.

There are four types of data dump.

Dump Program: Dump data for one program.

Dump All Programs: Dump all program data.

Dump Global Parameter: Dump global data.

Dump All Programs and Global Parameter: Dump all program data and global data.

Transmitting a data dump

1.Connect the MIDI OUT connector of the CX-3 to the MIDI IN connector of the device that will receive the data dump.

2.Enter Global mode.

The key LED will light.

3.While holding down the PROGRAM [7] key, press the [®] key six times.

The display will indicate Dump Program.

When you select Dump Program, the number of the program to be dumped will be shown in the square brackets [ ] at the right of the display.

If you wish to change the program, use the [–]/[+] keys. The program transmitted here will be a program of the mode that was last selected when you entered Global mode in step 2. If you wish to dump a Normal mode program, select Normal mode before entering Global mode in step 2. Similarly, if you wish to dump an EX mode program, select EX mode before entering Global mode in step 2.

After pressing the PROGRAM [7] key, you can press the [®] from 6 to 9 times to select the following data to dump.

[®] key	Screen display	Dumped data
Press 6 times	Dump Program	parameters for 1
		program
Press 7 times	Dump All Program	parameters for all
		programs
Press 8 times	Dump Global	global parameters
Press 9 times	Dump All Prog+Global	all program and
		global parameters

4.Press the [WRITE/ENTER] key.

The display will ask you to confirm the dump opera- tion.