Using Your Instrument with
Other Devices
PSR-S900/S700 Owner’s Manual 207
MIDI Settings
MIDI System Settings
The explanations here apply to the SYSTEM display to
be called up in step 4 of the “Basic Operation” on
page 204.

■LOCAL CONTROL

Turns the Local Control for each part on or off. When
Local Control is set to “ON,” the keyboard of the instru-
ment controls its own (local) internal tone generator,
allowing the internal voices to be played directly from
the keyboard. If you set Local to “OFF,” the keyboard
and controllers are internally disconnected from the
instrument’s tone generator section so that no sound is
output when you play the keyboard or use the control-
lers. For example, this allows you to use an external
MIDI sequencer to play the instrument’s internal voices,
and use the instrument keyboard to record notes to the
external sequencer and/or play an external tone genera-
tor.

■Clock setting, etc.

● CLOCK
Determines whether the instrument is controlled by its
own internal clock or a MIDI clock signal received from
an external device. INTERNAL is the normal Clock set-
ting when the instrument is being used alone or as a
master keyboard to control external devices. If you are
using the instrument with an external sequencer, MIDI
computer, or other MIDI device, and you want to syn-
chronize it to that device, set this parameter to the
appropriate setting: MIDI, USB 1, or USB 2. In this case,
make sure that the external device is connected prop-
erly (e.g., to the instrument’s MIDI IN terminal), and that
it is properly transmitting a MIDI clock signal. When
this is set for control by an external device (MIDI, USB
1 or USB 2), the Tempo is indicated as “Ext.” in the
Main display.
● TRANSMIT CLOCK
Turns MIDI clock (F8) transmission on or off. When set
to OFF, no MIDI clock or Start/Stop data is transmitted
even if a Song or Style is played back.
● RECEIVE TRANSPOSE
Determines whether or not the instrument’s transpose
setting (page 61) is applied to the note events received
by the instrument via MIDI.
● START/STOP
Determines whether incoming FA (start) and FC (stop)
messages affect Song or Style playback.

■MESSAGE SW

● SYS/EX.
The “Tx” setting turns MIDI transmission of MIDI Sys-
tem Exclusive messages on or off. The “Rx” setting turns
MIDI reception and recognition of MIDI System Exclu-
sive messages generated by external equipment on or
off.
● CHORD SYS/EX.
The “Tx” setting turns MIDI transmission of MIDI chord
exclusive data (chord detect. root and type) on or off.
The “Rx” setting turns MIDI reception and recognition
of MIDI chord exclusive data generated by external
equipment on or off.
MIDI Transmit Settings
The explanations here apply to the TRANSMIT display
to be called up in step 4 of the “Basic Operation” on
page 204. This determines which parts will be sent as
MIDI data and over which MIDI channel the data will
be sent.
Operation
Select the part to be transmitted and the channel via
which the selected part will be transmitted. You can also
determine the types of data to be sent.
●With the exception of the next two parts, the
configuration of the parts is the same as those
already explained elsewhere in this manual.
• UPPER
The keyboard part played on the right side of the key-
board from the Split Point for the Voices (RIGHT1 and/
or 2).
• LOWER

The keyboard part played on the left side of the keyboard

from the Split Point for the Voices. This is not affected by

the on/off status of the [ACMP] button.

SYSTEM display
TRANSMIT display