Midi Messages - Kurzweil V150 Owner's Manual

MIDI

MIDI Messages

You can send an All Notes Off message and an All Controllers Off message to the V150/V110
and to all 16 MIDI channels by pressing the General MIDI and Demo buttons together. This
"Panic" feature is a quick way to silence every instrument in your MIDI system.
By default, the V150/V110 responds to All Notes Off messages. There's one potential
disadvantage to this: some MIDI instruments and sequencers send an All Notes Off message
whenever there's a pause in your playing and all the keys are up. If you're controlling your
V150/V110 from one of these devices, you might find that the V150/V110's notes sometimes
shut off abruptly when they shouldn't. This is caused by the occasional All Notes Off message
sent by the instrument or sequencer (this is a non-standard use of the All Notes Off message, by
the way).
If you're experiencing this problem, you can avoid this situation by making the V150/V110
ignore the All Notes Off message. Set the value of Ignore All Notes Off (in the Preferences menu)
to Yes, and your notes won't cut short.
External Sync
This feature controls the synchronization of the V150/V110's metronome and arpeggiator with
other MIDI instruments or sequencers (using MIDI clock signals). See page 4-11 for more about
synchronization.
If you want the metronome or arpeggiator to be driven by MIDI clock signals from an external
MIDI instrument, set the value of External Sync to On. Otherwise, leave it at its default value of
Off. In this case, the V150/V110 sends MIDI clock signals to its MIDI Out port whenever you're
using the metronome or arpeggiator.
MIDI Channel Assignments
There are 16 more preferences, each corresponding to one of the MIDI channels. Each preference
indicates the sound assigned to that channel, as shown in the example below:
Channel||||||||||||||||||||||Sound||||||||
|||1|||||||||||||||||Stereo|Grand|Piano||||||||||0:0
Press the display button labeled
MIDI channel. Use the Up and Down buttons to select a different MIDI channel.
Next, press the display button under the name of the sound assigned to that channel. This
indicates that you want to change the sound assigned to the current channel. Use the Up and
Down buttons to select a different sound. Notice that the name of the sound is followed by two
numbers separated by a colon. These numbers are the bank ID and the sound ID of the current
sound.
MIDI Messages
This section describes the many MIDI messages that the V150/V110 sends and receives. The
MIDI implementation chart on page B-6 gives more information.
Keep in mind that MIDI messages have an effect only on the channel on which they're sent. A
message sent on Channel 1, for example, affects only the sounds on Channel 1.
The V150/V110 normally sends MIDI messages on one or more of five channels, corresponding
to the Main sound, the Layer sound, the Split sound, the SplitLayer sound, and the Metronome.
4-6
Channel to indicate that you want to view or edit a different