The P-100’s MIDI configuration
Now that we have gone over the basic concepts involved, you might be interested to take a look at the way the P-100
uses MIDI to produce music. We mentioned on the previous page that the P-100 consists of a MIDI keyboard
connected to a multitimbral tone generator, which is capable of producing two timbres at once. In fact, the P-100’s
three playing modes — Single, Dual, and Split — are nothing more than different ways of combining these MIDI
hardware elements.
In
Single mode,
the P-100 uses only one of its two timbres. The keyboard sends MIDI channel voice messages to the
tone generator to control the main voice timbre. It also outputs the same messages from the MIDI OUT terminal on the
channel you select as the transmit channel (Tch). Channel voice messages which are input at the MIDI IN terminal
using the channel designated as the receive channel (Rch) will also be sent to the tone
generator to control the main
voice.
Both timbres are used in
Dual mode.
Since the two timbres play in unison, both the main voice and the sub voice will
respond in the same way to any channel voice messages that are received from the P-100’s keyboard or the MIDI IN
receive channel.
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