KR-3 Owner’s Manual—Utility Menu

Program Change (and Bank Select)

“Program changes” are MIDI messages that tell the receiving instrument to select another sound (or Tone) and also contain information about which Tone to select. There may be situations where you would like to double the Upper part melody with a sound of an external instrument that is not automatically selected.

Enter the Program Change function. It allows you to transmit sound select messages without choosing Tones on the KR-3 itself.

(*)Let’s agree to use the term sound select message to describe MIDI message clusters consisting of one or two bank select messages and a program change mes- sage.

1.On the Utility Menu screen, press <√√PAGE> or <PAGE®®> to select the following display page:

2.Use the <√> and <®> buttons at the lower left of the display to select the message type.

3.Use <▲> and <▼> to the left and right of the dis- play to set the value.

Display

MIDI message

Value

CC 00

Bank Select MSB

0~127

CC 20

Bank Select LSB

0~127

PC

Program Change

1~128

 

 

 

Please note that each press of a <▲> or <▼> button will cause the KR-3 to transmit the value you set. Always set the numbers in the same order as they appear on the display: start with CC00, then set CC20, and finally set a PC value.

Note: Most instruments do not understand CC20 messages, so feel free to skip that one.

Note: Sound select messages transmitted on the Program Change page are not executed by the KR-3.

MIDI: TX MIDI Ch./Local Control

1.On the Utility Menu screen, press <√√PAGE> or <PAGE®®> to select the following display page:

■TX MIDI Channel

TX MIDI Ch refers to the MIDI channel used for transmitting messages from the KR-3 to external instruments (TX is short for transmit). If the external instrument is set to receive on (RX) MIDI channel 3, select “3” here. Otherwise, the external instrument will neither play nor select sounds, etc.

2.Use the buttons to the left of the display to choose the MIDI transmit channel.

That channel number (1~16) appears on the display. Note: MIDI messages sent from the external MIDI instru- ment to the KR-3 are received on all channels. However, all keyboard information (of the Upper, Layer, Lower, Chord, and Bass Tones) will be transmitted on one channel.

Note: Composer and Music Style data are not transmitted.

■Local Control

Local Control is a switch between the keyboard of your KR-3 and its tone generator. This switch is usually set to On so that you hear the notes you play. When working with an external sequencer, you may have to select Off, though, to avoid that every note is sounded twice (once by yourself and again by the sequencer).

Local Control has no effect on what is being transmitted to the MIDI OUT connector.

After setting Local Control to Off, do not forget to set the sequencer’s Soft Thru parameter to On. That way, the messages can be transmitted from the sequencer’s MIDI OUT connector to the KR-3’s MIDI IN connector (use a MIDI cable to establish this connection).

3.Use the buttons on the right of the display to switch Local Control on or off.

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