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MIDI applications

■About MIDI

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and is a world-wide standard for exchanging various types of musical data between electronic musical instruments and computers. When MIDI cables are used to connect two or more MIDI devices, performance data can be exchanged between the devices, even if they were made by different manufacturers.

■Connecting MIDI devices/computers (MIDI connectors)

Controlling an external MIDI tone generator from this instrument

When you wish to use the TRITON Le’s keyboard, control- lers, and sequencer etc. to play an external MIDI tone gener- ator, use a MIDI cable to connect this instrument’s MIDI OUT connector to the MIDI IN connector of the external MIDI tone generator.

MIDI OUT TRITON Le MIDI IN MIDI tone generator

Controlling this instrument’s tone generator from an external MIDI device

When you wish to play or control the TRITON Le’s tone generator from an external MIDI keyboard or sequencer etc., use a MIDI cable to connect the MIDI OUT connector of the external MIDI device to the MIDI IN connector of this instrument.

MIDI IN TRITON Le MIDI OUT MIDI keyboard

Controlling two or more external MIDI tone generators from this instrument

You can use the MIDI THRU jack to simultaneously control multiple MIDI devices. (This type of connection should be used to connect no more than three devices. If you wish to connect a larger number of MIDI devices, we recommend that you use a MIDI patch bay as shown in the second dia- gram below.)

MIDI IN MIDI tone generator

MIDI THRU

MIDI OUT TRITON Le MIDI IN MIDI keyboard

You can also use a MIDI patch bay to control multiple MIDI devices.

MIDI OUT		TRITON Le
MIDI IN	MIDI OUT		MIDI IN
MIDI patch bay	MIDI OUT
		MIDI IN	MIDI keyboard

MIDI tone generator

The “Convert Position” setting

On the TRITON Le, the parameters “Key Transpose,” “Velocity Curve” and “AfterT Curve” (GLOBAL 1.1–1a) allow you to transpose the pitch, adjust the velocity sensitiv- ity, and adjust the after touch sensitivity (☞ p.122).

The effect that these settings will have on the internal sequencer and on the MIDI data that is transmitted and received will depend on “Convert Position” (GLOBAL 2.1– 1a) setting (☞ p.127).

•When controlling an external MIDI tone generator from the TRITON Le, select Pre MIDI. The above-listed settings will affect the MIDI data that is transmitted. These settings will also affect the data that is recorded on the internal sequencer.

Incoming MIDI data will be handled with settings equiv- alent to “Key Transpose” 0, “Velocity Curve” 4, and “AfterT Curve” 3.

•When controlling the TRITON Le’s tone generator from an external MIDI device, select PostMIDI. The above- listed settings will affect the MIDI data that is received. These settings will also affect the data that is played back from the internal sequencer.

Outgoing MIDI data will be handled with settings equiv- alent to “Key Transpose” 0, “Velocity Curve” 4, and “AfterT Curve” 3.

Connecting an external MIDI sequencer or computer etc.

You can play the TRITON Le’s keyboard and record your performance on an external MIDI sequencer/computer (connected via a MIDI interface), and then play back the recorded performance to sound the TRITON Le’s tone gen- erator (i.e., using this instrument as an input keyboard and MIDI tone generator). To do this, connect the MIDI OUT and MIDI IN connectors of the TRITON Le and your external MIDI sequencer/computer to each other.

computer	MIDI OUT
	MIDI interface
	MIDI IN	MIDI OUT	MIDI IN

TRITON Le

Local Control On settings

When connections are made as shown above, turn on the Echo Back function of the external MIDI sequencer or com- puter (so that data received at MIDI IN will be re-transmit- ted from MIDI OUT), and turn off the TRITON Le’s Local Control setting (so that this instrument’s keyboard and tone

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