Connecting to a Computer

Connecting to the MIDI

Terminal

What is MIDI?

MIDI is a standard for digital signals and connectors that allows musical instruments, computers, and other devices, regardless of manufacturer, to exchange data with each other.

NOTE

•For details about MIDI implementation, visit: http://world.casio.com/

MIDI Connections

Connecting your computer or other external MIDI device to the digital piano’s MIDI THRU/OUT/IN terminals makes it possible for them to exchange MIDI messages. You also can playback notes you play on the digital piano on the connected device.

There is a third MIDI terminal named MIDI THRU, which passes any MIDI messages received by the MIDI IN terminal on to another device.

Bottom

MIDI Cable

Other device

MIDI OUT MIDI IN

MIDI Settings

You can use the procedure in “Other Settings” (page E-25) to configure MIDI settings. See page E-27 for a description of the settings and information about how to configure them.

Connecting to the USB Port

The digital piano’s USB port makes it quick and simple to connect to a computer.

You can install a USB MIDI driver from the CD-ROM that comes bundled with the digital piano onto a computer equipped with a USB port. After that, you can connect the digital piano to your computer and run commercially available MIDI software on your computer to exchange MIDI data with the digital piano. You also can use the USB connection to transfer files you downloaded from the CASIO MUSIC SITE from your computer to the digital piano.

You will need a commercially available USB cable to connect a computer to the digital piano’s USB port.

To connect to a computer using the USB port

1. On the computer to which you plan to connect, install the USB MIDI driver from the CD-ROM that comes bundled with the digital piano.

NOTE

•Before installing the USB MIDI driver, be sure to read the contents of the “readme.txt” file in the “English” folder on the bundled CD-ROM.

•For details about how to install the USB MIDI driver, see

the “CASIO USB MIDI Driver User’s Guide”

(manual_e.pdf)*1 that also is on the bundled CD-ROM.

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