Owner’s Manual
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MIDI is short for
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
. The word refers to many things, the most obvious
being a connector type that is used by musical instruments and other devices to exchange messages relating to the
act of making music.
Each time you play on the DisCover 5’s keyboard or
start song playback, your instrument transmits MIDI
data to its MIDI OUT socket. If you connect this
socket to the MIDI IN socket of another instrument,
that instrument may play the same notes as one of
the DisCover 5’s parts, select sounds, etc.
MIDI is a universal standard, which means that
musical data can be sent to and received by instru-
ments of different types and manufacturers. Fur-
thermore, MIDI allows you to connect your
DisCover 5 to a computer or hardware sequencer.
Connect your DisCover 5 as shown below.
MIDI can simultaneously transmit and receive mes-
sages on 16 channels, so that up to 16 instruments
can be controlled. Nowadays, most instruments
–like your DisCover 5– are multitimbral, which
means that they can play several musical parts with
different sounds.
Note: All DisCover 5 parts are set to receive MIDI messages. If
they do not seem to respond to the messages you send from
the external controller, you should check the MIDI connec-
tions and the channel settings on the DisCover 5.
The transmit and receive channels of the Keyboard
parts are set as follows:
Note: The VOCAL HARMONIZER parts are not MIDI compati-
ble and can therefore neither transmit, nor receive MIDI data.

The how-to’s

Accessing the MIDI functions

Do the following to gain access to the MIDI func-
tions:
(1) Press the [MENU] button.
The display changes to:
(2) Press the [MIDI] field.
(3) Do one of the following:
• Press a [1]~[8] field to select a MIDI Set.
• Press one or several “Macro Settings” fields to
recall the corresponding presets (called “mac-
ros”).
• Press the [Edit] field to gain access to the MIDI
parameters.
(4) If you changed certain MIDI parameter set-
tings, press the [EXECUTE] field to write them
to a MIDI Set (page 103).
12. MIDI
Transmits “MIDI IN” data
The DisCover 5 transmits data
External MIDI instrument/
computer (*)
DisCover 5External MIDI instrument
The DisCover 5 receives data
Upper MIDI channel 4
Lower MIDI channel 11
M.Drums MIDI channel 16