Connection to a Computer
3 Click the [System] icon. On the dialog box that

General MIDI

appears, click the [Hardware] tab, and then click

This keyboard supports General MIDI, so it can be used to

the [Driver Signing] button.

play commercially available pre-recorded General MIDI data

 

 

4 On the dialog box that appears, select [Ignore], and

and General MIDI data send to it from a personal computer.

See the separate Appendix A for details about the tones that

then click [OK].

 

 

are available with GM tones numbered 000 to 127.

NOTE

 

 

• Company and product names used herein are

MIDI Settings

trademarks of their respective owners.

 

 

You can use the parameter setting procedure (page E-72) to

 

 

change the settings of the MIDI parameters described below.

Using the USB port

See pages E-73 to E-74 for details about the setting menu and

procedure.

 

 

Note that you need to purchase a commercially available USB

■ MIDI In Chord Judge

cable to connect the keyboard to a computer using the USB

port. Once you establish a USB connection between the

This parameter determines whether note data received from

keyboard and a computer, you can exchange data between

an external device should be interpreted as an auto

them.

 

accompaniment chord fingering. Turn on this parameter

 

 

when you want to control auto accompaniment chords from

To connect to a computer using the

a computer or other external device.

 

USB port

 

on: Causes note data input through USB port to be

 

 

interpreted as auto accompaniment chord fingerings.

1 Use a commercially available USB cable to connect

The channel specified by the keyboard channel is used

for specifying chords.

the keyboard to the computer.

oFF: Turns off “MIDI In Chord Judge”.

 

 

Computer

 

■ Accomp/Song MIDI Out (Accompaniment/Song MIDI Out)

USB port

USB cable

 

 

Turn on this parameter when you want sound auto accom-

 

 

paniment or Song Memory on an external devices sound

 

 

source.

 

USB connector

on: Outputs auto accompaniment or Song Memory as MIDI

 

messages through the keyboard’s USB port.

 

Keyboard USB port

oFF: Does not output auto accompaniment or Song Memory.

 

 

 

 

NOTE

 

 

• For detailed information about MIDI Implementation, visit

 

 

the CASIO website at: http://world.casio.com/.

DATA ACCESS Lamp

•The DATA ACCESS lamp lights whenever the keyboard is exchanging data with a connected computer over a USB cable connection. Never disconnect the USB cable while the DATA ACCESS lamp is lit.

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