Making MIDI Settings

This section describes the MIDI settings you need to make when connecting this keyboard to a sequencer, synthesizer, or other external device. Once connected, you can send and receive data, and even play back commercially available General MIDI data.

MIDI SettingsGM SYSTEM ON/OFF (Default: on)

The parameters of the executable channel are always initialized whenever the GM SYSTEM ON/OFF setting is changed.

GM Mo d e

on: Tones sound within the range prescribed by General MIDI.

oFF: Causes the range of “072 Piccolo” to be raised one octave, and the range of “032 Acoustic Bass” to be lowered one octave.

1 octave up

072 Piccolo

1 octave down

032

Acoustic Bass

033

Fingered Bass

034

Picked Bass

035

Fretless Bass

036

Slap Bass 1

037

Slap Bass 2

038

Synth Bass 1

039

Synth Bass 2

LOCAL CONTROL (Default: on)

This setting determines whether or not the keyboard and sound source of this keyboard are connected internally. When recording to a computer or other external device connected to this keyboard’s MIDI IN/ OUT terminal, it helps if you turn LOCAL CONTROL off.

L o c a l

on: Anything played on the keyboard is sounded by the internal sound source and simultaneously output as a MIDI message from the MIDI OUT terminal.

oFF: Anything played on the keyboard is output as a MIDI message from the MIDI OUT terminal, without being sounded by the internal sound source. Turn LOCAL CONTROL off whenever you are using the MIDI THRU function of a computer or other external device. Also note that no sound is produced by the keyboard if LOCAL CONTROL is turned off and no external device is con- nected.

 

MIDI THRU

MIDI IN

 

MIDI OUT

MIDI OUT

MIDI IN

MIDI OUT

Sound Source

Sound Source

 

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KEYBOARD CHANNEL (Default: 01)

This parameter sets the channel for MIDI messages to an external device. You can set any MIDI channel in the range of 01 to 16 as the keyboard channel.

K e y b d Ch

LOCAL CONTROL On

Notes played on the keyboard are sounded by the internal sound source and output as MIDI messages from the MIDI OUT termi- nal.

LOCAL CONTROL Off

Notes played on the keyboard are output as MIDI messages from the MIDI OUT terminal, but not sounded directly by the internal sound source. The MIDI THRU terminal of the connected device can be used to return the MIDI message and sound it on this keyboard ’s sound source.

MIDI IN CHORD JUDGE ON/OFF (Default: oFF)

Use MIDI IN CHORD JUDGE when you want to use note data received from an external device through MIDI IN to play chords. It comes in handy when you want to control Auto Accompaniment chord progressions from a computer or other external device.

C h o r d

on: Turns MIDI IN CHORD JUDGE on, which allows chord settings to be made using keyboard channel note data input through the MIDI IN terminal when the chord fingering method is selected by the MODE button.

oFF: Turns MIDI IN CHORD JUDGE off.

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ACCOMP MIDI OUT (Default: oFF)A c ompOu t

on: Auto Accompaniment is played by the keyboard and the corresponding MIDI message is output from the MIDI OUT termi- nal.

oFF: Auto Accompaniment MIDI messages are not output from the MIDI OUT terminal.

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