Local Control; External Clock; Using Initial Setup Send With A Sequencer - Yamaha Portatone EZ-250i Owner's Manual

Local Control

This function lets you enable or disable keyboard control over the EZ-250i's
voices in the Function mode (page 67). This would come in handy, for example,
when recording notes to MIDI sequencer. If you are using the sequencer to play
back the voices of the EZ-250i, you would want to set this to "off" — in order to
avoid getting "double" notes, both from the keyboard and from the sequencer.
Normally, when playing the EZ-250i by itself, this should be set to "on."

External Clock

This determines whether the style and song playback functions are controlled by
the PortaTone's internal clock (off) or by MIDI clock data from an external
sequencer or computer (on).
This should be set to on when you want to have style or song playback follow the
external device (such as a rhythm machine or a sequencer). The default setting is
off.
These settings can be made in the Function mode (page 67).

Using Initial Setup Send with a Sequencer

The most common use for the Initial Setup Send function is in recording a song
on a sequencer that is intended for playback with the EZ-250i. Essentially, this
takes a "snapshot" of the EZ-250i settings and sends that data to the sequencer.
By recording this "snapshot" at the start of the song (before any actual perfor-
mance data), you can instantly restore the necessary settings on the EZ-250i in the
Function mode (page 67). Provided there is a pause in the song, you could also do
this in the middle of a song — for example, completely changing the EZ-250i set-
tings for the next section of the song.
MIDI Functions
• No sound is output from the
EZ-250i when Local ON/OFF is
set to OFF.
• If External Clock is set to ON,
style or song playback will not
start unless external clock are
received.
• When the Initial Setup Send
operation is completed, the EZ-
250i automatically returns to the
previous panel condition.
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