Kawai CE200 manual Bass

tune in to the right channel. When a transmitting instrument uses channel 1, the receiving instrument must be set to use channel 1 also. The CE200 piano lets you set the same channel number for both Transmit and receive. There are 16 MIDI channels available to choose from on the CE200 piano. In addition to channel-to-channel connection, it is possible to receive multiple channels. With MIDI instruments equipped with multi-timbral capabilities, you can receive multiple parts on multiple channels each played with a different sound simultaneously. For example, a MIDI instrument might receive the melody on channel 1, the chords on 2, the bass on 3, and assign a different instrument to each channel. Piano for channel 1, strings for 2, electric bass for 3. In this way, the CE200 piano can play up to 16 different parts each with a different sound.

Here’s a diagram to summarize the MIDI connections we have discussed.

Instrument #1, which is transmitting the piano part on channel 1 (Ch 1), the string part on Ch 2 and the bass part on Ch 3, is connected to Instrument #2. Instrument #3 is connected to MIDI Thru on instrument #2. The receive channel is set to 1 for Instrument #2 and multi-timbral mode is turned off. On instrument #3 multi-timbral mode is on.

MIDI Keyboard #1 Transmitting

Ch 1	Piano
Ch 2	Strings
Ch 3	Bass

MIDI Keyboard #2	Sound Module #3
Receiving ch 1	Multi-timbral mode on
Multi-timbral mode off

Using MIDI

OUT

INTHRU

Receiving only Ch 1 Piano

IN

Receiving

Ch 1	Piano
Ch 2	Strings
Ch 3	Bass

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