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	Chapter 10 Connecting External Devices
Local On: The keyboard and internal sound generator are	■ Sending Recorded
connected.	Performance Data to a MIDI
Sound is emitted	Device (Composer MIDI Out)

Sound Generator

Local On

Local Off: The keyboard and internal sound generator are separated. No sound will be produced by the keyboard when it is played.

No sound produced

Sound Generator

Local Off

When Composer Out is active, you can send performance data recorded with the KR to a connected MIDI device or computer.

When you turn on the power, this is set to “OFF” (data is not sent).

1.Press the [Menu] button.

2.Touch <Composer MIDI Out>.

→ When connecting a unit in the Roland MT series, you don’t	3.	Touch	to set ON or OFF.
need to switch off Local Control. MT units transmit Local Off	4.	Touch <Exit> to return to the Menu screen.
messages when their power is switched on. If you first switch
on the KR, then the MT-series device, Local Control is
automatically switched off on the KR.

■Sending Tone Change Messages (Program Change/Bank Select MSB/Bank Select LSB)

A Program Change is a message that means “change to the Tone of the specified number.” The device that receives this changes to the Tone of the corresponding number.

When you choose a Program Change message (Program Number), the Program Number will be transmitted to the MIDI device connected to the KR. The MIDI device that receives the Program Number changes the tone to the corresponding Program Number.

Normally, the Tone is selected from the 128 Tones available. Some MIDI devices, however, have more than 128 Tones. With such devices, the Tone is selected through a combination of Program Change messages and Bank Select messages. There are two parts of a Bank Select message: the MSB (Controller 0, with a value of 0–127) and the LSB (Controller 32, with a value of 0–127).

*Some MIDI instruments can’t handle Bank Select messages. Others can handle Bank Selects, but do not recognize the LSB part.

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