Roland KR7/5 owner manual Midi Settings, Selecting the Transmit Channel Tx Channel, 160

Chapter 9 Connecting External Devices

MIDI Settings

With the KR-7/5, you can make MIDI settings like those described below.

“MIDI Setting Screen”

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Display	Description
Tx Channel	Chooses the MIDI send channel
	(p. 160).
Local Control	Switches Local Control on or off
	(p. 160).

Making the Settings

1.Switch to the Basic screen, or press the One Touch Program [Piano] button.

2.Touch <Functions>.

3.Touch <MIDI Setting> or <Program Change>.

4.Touch to make the setting for each item.

Touch <Exit> to return to the Functions screen.

■Selecting the Transmit Channel

(Tx Channel)

MIDI organizes things into “channels,” which are numbered from 1 through 16. Simply connecting a cable is not enough for communication to take place. The connected devices must be set to use the same MIDI channels. Otherwise, no sound will be produced, and no sounds can be selected.

Select the transmit channel (1–16) of the KR-7/5.

The channel setting is at “1” when the KR-7/5 is powered up.

“Program Change Screen”

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Display	Description
Bank Select MSB	Sends Bank Select MSB messages.
	(p. 161)
Bank Select LSB	Sends Bank Select LSB messages.
	(p. 161)
Program Change	Sends Program Change messages
	(Program Numbers). (p. 161)

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If the keyboard has been split into right-hand and left-hand sections, messages from the left-hand section are fixed at “3.”

The KR-7/5 receives messages on all channels from 1 through 16.

■Disconnecting the Internal Sound Generator and

Keyboard (Local Control)

When connecting a MIDI sequencer, set Local Control to “OFF.” The setting is at “Local Control ON” when the KR-7/ 5 is powered up.

As illustrated, information describing what has been played on the keyboard is passed to the sound module over two different routes, (1) and (2). As a result, you hear overlapping or intermittent sounds. To prevent this from happening, route (1) must be disabled, by setting the unit to what is known as “Local Off.”

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(1)Local On

		Sequencer
Sound	MIDI	MIDI
	IN	OUT
Generator		Memory
	MIDI	MIDI
	OUT	IN

(2) Soft Tru On

Each note played is sounded twice

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