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BASIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 1
audio
signals
MIDI messages
audio
signals
Controller block
MIDI IN
MIDI OUT
external MIDI device,
MIDI tone generator
external MIDI device,
MIDI keyboard
MIDI
messages
Sequencer block
Tone Generator
block Effect block
6. Controller block

About the controller block

• The controller block lets you use the microkeyboard, pitch
wheel, assignable wheel, foot switch etc. to play music and
control the tone generator block via the sequencer block, or
to directly control the tone generator block or effect block.
• In addition to transmitting note data to the tone generator
block and to the sequencer block, the microkeyboard are
also used to specify chord roots or chord types, and to input
fingered chords.
• Utility mode System settings allow you to specify the con-
trol numbers that the pitch wheel and the assignable wheel
will output.

Relationship to other blocks

• In Song mode and Pattern mode, the controller block is con-
nected to the various parts of the tone generator and to the
MIDI OUT connectors via the keyboard track (recording
track) of the sequencer block.
• Data from the controller block passes from the keyboard
track to the parts of the tone generator block and to external
MIDI devices in accordance with the Out Channel settings
“TO TG,” “MIDI OUT-A” and “MIDI OUT-B.”
• From the controller block, you can record sequence tracks
or user phrases, or play the tone generator block or external
MIDI devices.
• When Fingered Chord is ON (FINGRD), musical data will
not be output from the keyboard range below the specified
Fingered Zone (→ p.299) area.
• The “keyboard track” is the track which is highlighted in
the Song Play and Pattern Play pages.
• The “recording track” is the track selected by the cursor in
the Recording Standby page. If the cursor is in a location
other than the track display, the track number will be high-
lighted.
Keyboard track /
Recording track
Controller block
Part
Tone generator
block
Effect block
Part
Track
Sequencer block
Track