Using Midi; About Midi; Making The Midi Connections - Optimus MD-1200 Owner's Manual

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USING MIDI

Your MD-1200 includes a feature called
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Inter-
face) — the universal standard for send-
ing and receiving performance data
between all types of electronic musical
instruments, regardless of manufactur-
er.
Using MIDI, you can play music on your
MD-1200 and another instrument at the
same time while pressing the keys on
only one, record your music to a se-
quencer, acquire a wider selection of
preset tones from a sound module, and
much more.

ABOUT MIDI

Every MIDI-equipped instrument has
MIDI OUT and IN terminals, and some
also have a MIDI THRU terminal. Each
of these terminals serves a different pur-
pose.
MIDI OUT sends MIDI data to ("talks to")
the other MIDI instrument(s).
MIDI IN receives ("listens to") MIDI data
sent by the other MIDI instrument(s).
MIDI THRU lets you connect ("network")
additional MIDI instruments, and sends
along to other MIDI devices a copy of all
data it receives through its MIDI IN ter-
minal.
The cable that connects MIDI devices
does not actually carry sound between
them, like a speaker wire carries sound
from a receiver to a speaker. Instead,
MIDI-equipped devices talk to each oth-
er in digital codes (instructions). One
MIDI device sends digital instructions
representing exactly what is being
played on it. The other MIDI device re-
ceives and translates those instruc-
tions, then produces (or records) the
sound exactly as it was played on the
first device.
MAKING THE MIDI
CONNECTIONS
Your MD-1200 has
MIDI OUT
minals. To connect your MD-1200 to an-
other MIDI-equipped device, you must
use a MIDI cable, available at your local
RadioShack store.
MIDI OUT
MIDI IN
and
ter-
IN
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