Connecting To A Personal Computer - Yamaha Portatone EZ-250i Owner's Manual

MIDI Functions

Connecting to a Personal Computer

Connecting this instrument to a computer enables a wide range of powerful and
useful musical possibilties. You can transfer MIDI data back and forth with your
computer for music recording/playback, and with the special Song Filer software
(contained in the included CD-ROM), you can copy data from your computer to
memory card.
Connect one end of a USB cable to the USB terminal on the rear panel of this
instrument to the USB terminal on your computer. You'll also need to install the
USB-MIDI driver (also in the included CD-ROM) to your computer. For details,
see the "CD-ROM Installation Guide".
Computer
(sequencer software)
MIDI LSB Receive Cancel
Determines whether the LSB data of Bank Select is received or
not. Press and hold the lowest key and turn on the power to change
the setting (LSB is ignored).
To restore MIDI LSB Receive Cancel to normal (LSB is recog-
nized), turn on the power again normally.
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USB Cable
Viewing the Notation for MIDI
Channel 1
• The EZ-250i has a special func-
EZ-250i
tion that lets you view the notes
of the MIDI data (channel 1 only)
on the display.