Korg Speaker System owner manual Recording musical data from an exter- nal device

Playing the TRITON multi-timbrally from an external device

The TRITON can be connected to an external device and played multi-timbrally in the following ways.

•MIDI messages from the external device can play a combination (8-part multi-timbral performance). You can change the overall settings (programs, levels, and effects) by using program change messages to switch combinations.

•MIDI messages from the external device can be used to play a song (using the TRITON as a 16-part multi-timbral tone generator). However if the Global P1: MIDI “MIDI Clock” is INT, it will not be possible to switch the overall settings.

•MIDI Clock messages from the external device can be used to make the TRITON playback a song (set “MIDI Clock” to EXT, and run the TRITON’s sequencer). (☞“Synchronizing the playback of the arpeggiator or sequencer”) You can change the overall settings (programs, levels, effects) by using song select messages to switch songs.

Synchronizing the playback of the arpeggiator or sequencer

The choice of whether the TRITON will be the master (the controlling device) or the slave (the controlled device) is made by Global P1: MIDI “MIDI Clock.”

Using the TRITON as master and the external MIDI device as slave

Connect the TRITON’s MIDI OUT connector to the MIDI IN connector of the external MIDI device. Alter- natively, connect the TRITON’s TO HOST connector to your computer (☞p.111, 112).

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

Arpeggiator: The tempo can be controlled from the TRITON. Simultaneously, the performance of the arpeggiator will be transmitted via MIDI. (In Com- bination, Sequencer, and Song Play modes, data will be transmitted by timbres/tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2.) An external tone generator con- nected 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. 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’s sequencer, you can use the Global

P1: MIDI “Dump Sequencer” page menu command if the slave device is the TRITON. If the slave device is another model, you can use the TRITON’s Disk mode data filer function (“Receive and Save MIDI Exclusive,” “Load and Transmit MIDI Exclusive Data”).

Using the external MIDI device as master and the TRITON as slave

Connect the TRITON’s MIDI IN connector to the MIDI OUT connector of the external MIDI device. Alterna- tively, connect the TRITON’s TO HOST to your com- puter (☞p.111, 112).

•When you set “MIDI Clock” to External MIDI or External PCI/F, the TRITON will be the slave device.

Arpeggiator: The tempo will follow the MIDI tim- ing clock. If you playback the external sequencer, the TRITON’s arpeggiator will synchronize to the external timing clock. (☞p.105)

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

Sequencer: It will not be possible to control the playback from the TRITON; playback will be con- trolled by the external device connected to the TRI- TON’s MIDI IN. If you wish to playback the external sequencer to make the TRITON’s sequencer playback in synchronization to the exter- nal timing clock, you must first set the same time signature and starting measure locations on both devices.

Even if “MIDI Clock” is set to External MIDI or External PCI/F and the TRITON is being controlled from an external device, musical data will be trans- mitted by tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2.

Recording musical data from an exter- nal device

There are two ways in which you can play back an external sequencer and record its playback on the TRI- TON.

•Set Global P1: MIDI “MIDI Clock” 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.

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