Playing Sounds From An External Midi Sound Generator With The Rs-5/9; Connecting To External Midi Sound Generators; Set The Keyboard Transmit Channel - Roland RS-5 Owner's Manual

Chapter 10. Performing With An External MIDI Device
Playing Sounds from an
External MIDI Sound
Generator With the RS-5/9
By connecting the RS-5/9 to an external MIDI device with a
MIDI cable and setting the channels, you can then produce
sounds from the external MIDI device's sound generator by
playing the RS-5/9's keyboard. You can switch the external
MIDI sound generator's Tones from the RS-5/9 as well.
Connecting to External MIDI
Sound Generators
Example 1: Connecting to one external MIDI sound
generator
fig.R10-05exp
MIDI OUT
RS-5/9
Example 2: Connecting to two external MIDI sound
generators
fig.R10-06exp
MIDI OUT
RS-5/9
* Messages received at the MIDI IN connector are output from
the MIDI THRU connector unchanged.
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MIDI IN
Sound Module A
MIDI IN MIDI THRU
Sound Module A
MIDI IN
Sound Module B
Example 3: Connecting to three or more external MIDI
sound generators
fig.R10-07exp
MIDI IN
MIDI IN
Sound Module A
MIDI OUT
RS-5/9
* If you "daisy-chain" three or more MIDI devices using IN ->
THRU -> IN -> THRU ..., the MIDI signal may become
garbled, and data errors may occur. In such cases, use a MIDI
Thru Box. MIDI Thru Boxes are devices that allow a single
stream of MIDI data to be sent to a large number of MIDI
devices without causing data errors.
1. Before starting the connection procedure, make sure that
the power to all devices has been turned off.
2. After reading "Connecting the RS-5/9 to external
equipment" (p. 14), connect an audio device/system or
headphones.
3. Connect the external MIDI sound device with the MIDI
cable as shown in the figure below.
4. As described in "Turning On the Power" (p. 15), turn on
the power of each device.

Set the Keyboard Transmit Channel

When you have finished connecting the external MIDI
device, match the keyboard's Transmit channel and the
Receive channel for each of the external MIDI sound
generator's Parts.
Settings
PART: Transmits performance data over the same channel
as the performing Part's Receive channel (p. 122).
1–16: RS-5/9 performance data is sent over a selected channel.
Ordinarily, this is set to PART. Particularly when Key Mode
is set to Split or Dual, the performance data from the Upper
and Lower Parts are sent over separate channels. Therefore,
you can control two external MIDI sound generators.
You might want to set these to Channels 1–16 in situations such
as when you want to switch the RS-5/9's Parts as you play.
MIDI Patcher
MIDI IN
Sound Module B