Sound Generator Section; Sound Generator Common Block; Part Block - Casio AP-500 Implementation Manual

1.4

Sound Generator Section

The Sound Generator Section consists of a common part that does not depend on the channel and a part that specific to
each channel. Mainly it receives performance information and performs operations.
1.4.1

Sound Generator Common Block

The common section consists of a sound generator setting blocks that do not depend on the sound generator part, such as
system effects, mixer master control, etc. These can be controlled by system exclusive messages that are basically exclusive
to this particular instrument, but several parameters also can be controlled by general universal system exclusive messages.
1.4.2

Part Block

The parts of the sound generator can be operated and their settings can be changed with Instrument-specific system exclusive
messages and channel messages. This function consists of 32 parts, but channel messages can control only Group B.
The following table shows the fixed relationships between the part numbers and channel numbers of channel messages.
Part Part
Number Name
00 A01
01 A02
02 A03
03 A04
04 A05
05 A06
06 A07
07 A08
08 A09
09 A10
10 A11
11 A12
12 A13
13 A14
14 A15
15 A16
16 B01
17 B02
18 B03
19 B04
20 B05
21 B06
22 B07
23 B08
24 B09
25 B10
26 B11
27 B12
28 B13
MIDI
Assigned Function
Channel
01
02
03
04
05 Sequencer playback
06 Sequencer playback
07 Sequencer playback
08
09 Metronome/Count
10 Accompaniment
11 Accompaniment
12 Accompaniment
13 Accompaniment
14 Accompaniment
15 Sequencer playback
16
01 MIDI/Music Library Channel01
02 MIDI/Music Library Channel02
03 MIDI/Music Library Channel03
04 MIDI/Music Library Channel04
05 MIDI/Music Library Channel05
06 MIDI/Music Library Channel06
07 MIDI/Music Library Channel07
08 MIDI/Music Library Channel08
09 MIDI/Music Library Channel09
10 MIDI/Music Library Channel10
11 MIDI/Music Library Channel11
12 MIDI/Music Library Channel12
13 MIDI/Music Library Channel13
Keyboard
Keyboard
Keyboard
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-
-
6
Description
Main
Layered
Split
Keyboard track main
Keyboard track layered
Keyboard track split
Drums
Bass
Chords 1
Chords 2
Chords 3
Solo track
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Music Library left-hand data
Music Library right-hand data