Yamaha SY99 Owner's Manual page 270

Note on/off (all, odd, even): When set to "all",
the SY99 tone generator will produce sound in
response to all notes received at MIDI IN.
When set to "odd" or "even", the SY99 tone
generator will respond only to odd or even notes.
This affects only the notes received at MIDI IN,
and will have no effect on the notes played by
the SY99 keyboard.
Program Change (off, on): This determines what
the SY99 does when a program change message
is received at MIDI IN, and how program change
messages are transmitted from MIDI OUT.
Usually you will leave this set at "on". For de-
tails, see the following explanations for Program
Change = off and Program Change = on.
The SY99 will also receive and transmit
MIDI bank select messages (see the chart
below).
Device Number (off, 1...16, all): This determines
the channel on which the SY99 will receive or
transmit MIDI system exclusive messages such
as parameter changes and bulk data. When
"off is selected, system exclusive messages
will not be transmitted or received. When "all"
is selected, system exclusive messages will be
transmitted on channel 1, and received on any
channel.
Bulk Protect (off, on): The SY99 is able to re-
ceive system exclusive bulk data at any time,
and the newly received data will replace the data
in memory. By setting bulk protect on you can
prevent unexpected bulk data from overwriting
important data.
Pattern Protect (off, on): Song data in the K-Seq
format in MIDI consists of both song data and
pattern data. If the pattern protect item is set to
"off" the SY99 will receive both the song data
and the pattern data. By setting the pattern
protect to "on," you can instruct the SY99 to
selectively admit song data but exclude pattern
data. This is useful when you wish to receive in
songs without overwriting the pattern data
currently contained in the SY99's sequencer
memory.
Pressing F1-F8 will move the cursor to the
corresponding item in the display.
Local: If you are using the SY99 by itself, you
should usually leave local on. However local off
can be useful in the following situations.
Some commercially available MIDI process-
ing devices are able to receive a stream of MIDI
note and controller data and process it to create
parallel harmony or other musical effects. If you
have this type of MIDI processing unit, it may
be interesting to turn the SY99 local parameter
off and make MIDI connections so that the note
and controller data transmitted from the SY99's
MIDI OUT is processed by the MIDI processing
parameter unit and then transmitted back to the
SY99's MIDI IN.
If you use an external sequencer with the
SY99, you will probably record from the SY99's
MIDI OUT to the sequencer, and playback from
the sequencer's MIDI OUT to the SY99's MIDI
IN. If the external sequencer is able to echo back
(retransmit) the data being recorded, you can
turn local off for the SY99 so that it produces
sound only in response to data from the external
sequencer.
Note on/off: This setting can be used to increase
the number of simultaneous notes. Each SY99 is
able to produce up to 16 notes of AFM sound
and 16 notes of AWM sound at once. By send-
ing the same MIDI data to two SY99s and set-
ting one to note "odd" and the other to note
"even", you can double the number of simul-
taneous notes that can be produced.
Program Change = off: Incoming bank select and
program change messages will be ignored.
Program change messages will not be trans-
mitted.
Program Change = on: Incoming bank select and
program change messages will be executed as
indicated in the chart below.
Voice (Internal)
(Card)
(Preset1)
(Preset2)
Multi (Internal)
(Card)
(Preset)
Voice in Multi (Internal)
(Card)
(Preset1)
(Preset2)
UTILITY MODE
Voice/
Bank Program
Multi
Select Change
Number
1-64 1 1-64
1-64 1-64
2
1-64 3 1-64
1-64 6 1-64
1-16 1 7 65-80
1-16 1 8 65-80
1-16 1 9 65-80
1-64 1-64
33
1-64 34 1-64
1-64 35 1-64
1-64 1-64
38
259