Korg Electric Keyboard manual 239, Recording musical data from an external device

Synchronizing the playback of the arpeg- giator or sequencer

The choice of whether the TRITON Le will be the master (the controlling device) or the slave (the controlled device) is made by “MIDI Clock” (GLOBAL 2.1–1a).

Using this instrument as master and the external MIDI device as slave

Connect the MIDI OUT connector of this instrument to the MIDI IN connector of the external MIDI device. (☞ p.231)

•When you set “MIDI Clock” to Internal, this instrument will be the master device, and will transmit MIDI timing clock messages.

Arpeggiator: The tempo can be controlled from this instrument. Simultaneously, the performance of the arpeggiator will be transmitted via MIDI. (In Combina- tion, Sequencer modes, data will be transmitted by tim- bres/tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2.) An external tone generator connected to MIDI OUT will sound, and the tempo of an external sequencer can be controlled.

Sequencer: The musical data can be played back and controlled on the TRITON Le. Simultaneously, the sequencer playback will be transmitted via MIDI from tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2. An external tone generator connected to MIDI OUT will sound, and the tempo of an external sequencer can be controlled.

However, since exclusive data cannot be recorded on the TRITON Le’s sequencer, you can use the “Dump Sequencer” (GLOBAL 2.1–1c) utility menu command if the slave device is the TRITON Le. If the slave device is another model, you can use the TRITON Le’s Media mode data filer function (“Receive and Save MIDI Exclu- sive,” “Load and Transmit MIDI Exclusive Data”).

(☞ p.144, 150)

Using the external MIDI device as master and this instrument as slave

Connect the TRITON Le’s MIDI IN connector to the MIDI OUT connector of the external MIDI device. (☞ p.231).

•When you set “MIDI Clock” to External, the TRITON Le will be the slave device.

Arpeggiator: The tempo will follow the MIDI timing clock. If you playback the external sequencer, the TRITON Le’s arpeggiator will synchronize to the exter- nal timing clock. (☞ BG p.107)

Even if “MIDI Clock” is External and the TRITON Le is being controlled from the external device, the perfor- mance of the arpeggiator performance will still be trans- mitted via MIDI. (In Combination and Sequencer modes, the arpeggiator performance will be transmitted from timbres/tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2.)

Sequencer: The tempo will follow the MIDI timing clock. You can play back an external sequencer, and synchro- nize the sequencer to the MIDI timing clock that it trans- mits. Even if “MIDI Clock” is set to External and the TRITON Le is being controlled from an external device, musical data will be transmitted by tracks whose “Sta- tus” is BTH, EXT, or EX2.

Recording musical data from an external device

There are two ways in which you can play back an external sequencer and record its playback on this instrument.

•Set “MIDI Clock” (GLOBAL 2.1–1a) to Internal, begin recording, and then start the external sequencer. With this method, the MIDI messages will be recorded without the two devices being synchronized. Since the incoming musical data will simply be recorded, this method allows the performance to be reproduced faithfully, but since measure divisions etc. will not be kept track of, this method is not suitable if you intend to edit the data later.

•If you set “MIDI Clock” to External, the start of recording and the tempo etc. will all be under the control of the external sequencer. Since the two devices will be synchronized during the recording process, measure divisions etc. will be accurately preserved. (You will need to set the time signature before recording.) However, tempo changes during the performance will not be recorded, so you will have to insert any tempo changes later. For normal multi-track recording, you will use this method. (☞ BG p.80 “Multi (multitrack recording)”)

Recording the MIDI output of this instru- ment’s controllers, arpeggiator, and internal sequencer on an external sequencer/com- puter

If you wish to record the MIDI output of the TRITON Le’s controllers, arpeggiator, and internal sequencer on an exter- nal sequencer or computer and use the TRITON Le as the monitoring and playback tone generator while you record, you must turn off the TRITON Le’s Local Control setting (“Local Control On” GLOBAL 2.1–1a), and set your external sequencer/computer for echo-back (a function by which the data received at MIDI IN is retransmitted without change from MIDI OUT) so that the data from the TRITON Le’s controllers, arpeggiator and internal sequencer will not be applied in duplicate to the tone generator.

Using the REALTIME CONTROLS [1]–[4] knobs to record MIDI control changes on an external MIDI sequencer/computer

Set the TRITON Le to Local Control Off. Set the external MIDI sequencer/computer to Echo Back On. With these set- tings, recording and playback will occur correctly, and the control changes will not be applied to the tone generator in duplicate.

Recording the arpeggiator or RPPR function on an external MIDI sequencer/computer

When the arpeggiator is on, playing the keyboard or operat- ing the controllers of the TRITON Le will operate and con- trol the arpeggiator. The arpeggiator will operate and be controlled in the same way in response to MIDI messages received at MIDI IN. The MIDI messages generated from the arpeggiator will be transmitted from MIDI OUT according to the Local Control setting (“Local Control On” GLOBAL 2.1–1a) as described below.

In Sequencer mode, when the RPPR function is on, playing the keyboard will cause RPPR to operate. Similarly, the RPPR function will also operate in response to notes received on the MIDI channel of the track selected by “Track Select” (SEQ 1.1–1c). Notes will be transmitted by RPPR

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