Connecting External Midi Instruments; Controlling The Montage From An External Midi Keyboard Or Synthesizer; Controlling An External Midi Keyboard Or Synthesizer From The Montage - Yamaha montage6 Owner's Manual

With a standard MIDI cable (available separately), you can connect an external MIDI instrument, and control it from the
MONTAGE. Likewise, you can use an external MIDI device (such as a keyboard or sequencer) to control the sounds on the
MONTAGE. Below are several different MIDI connection examples; use the one most similar to your intended setup.
NOTE
Either of the built-in interfaces, the MIDI terminals, or the [USB TO HOST] terminal, can be used for MIDI data transmission/reception; however,
they cannot be used at the same time. Select which terminal is to be used for MIDI data transfer by pressing the [UTILITY] button  [Settings]
tab  [MIDI I/O] tab. As you work through the explanations in this chapter, set "MIDI IN/OUT" to "MIDI" since MIDI is used as the example
connection here.
Controlling the MONTAGE from an
external MIDI keyboard or
synthesizer
Use an external keyboard or synthesizer to remotely select
and play the Performances of the MONTAGE.
External MIDI keyboard, synthesizer, etc.
MIDI Transmit and Receive Channels
Make sure to match the MIDI Transmit Channel of the
external MIDI instrument with the MIDI Receive Channel of
the MONTAGE. For details on setting the MIDI Transmit
Channel of the external MIDI instrument, refer to the
owner's manual of that instrument. Each MIDI Receive
Channel number of the MONTAGE corresponds to each
Part number such as Channel 1 for Part 1, Channel 2 for
Part 2, and so on.
Controlling an external MIDI
keyboard or synthesizer from the
MONTAGE
This connection lets you sound an external MIDI tone
generator (synthesizer, tone generator module, etc.) by
playing the MONTAGE or playing back Songs from the
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Connecting External MIDI Instruments

MIDI [I ]
MO TAGE
MIDI [OUT ]
MONTAGE. Use this connection when you wish to sound the
other instrument as well as the MONTAGE.
MIDI [OUT]
MO TAGE
External MIDI tone generator such as MOTIF-RACK XS
Splitting the sound between the MONTAGE
and an external tone generator by MIDI
channel
Using the connection example shown above, you can play
both instruments and have them separately sound different
parts—for example, having your keyboard performance
sound the external instrument while the Song plays the
sounds of the MONTAGE. To use this feature, you must set
the MONTAGE's transmit channel and the external tone
generator's receive channel to the same channel number.
Each MIDI transmit channel number of the MONTAGE
corresponds to each Part number such as Channel 1 for
Part 1 or Channel 2 for Part 2. However, you can choose
the desired transmit channel by the following steps.
Press [UTILITY]  [Settings]  [Advanced], then set
"Zone Master" to "ON." For editing the Part, touch [Part
Settings]  [Zone Settings] to call up the Zone setting
display. Check the MIDI transmit channel in "Zone
Transmit," then change this parameter, if necessary. When
you wish to sound only the external tone generator, set the
master volume of the MONTAGE down or set "Local
Control" to "off" with the following operation: [UTILITY] 
[Settings]  [MIDI I/O] to call up the MIDI setting display,
then set "Local Control" to "off." For information on how to
set the MIDI Receive Channel of the external MIDI
instrument, refer to the owner's manual of that particular
MIDI instrument.
MIDI [I ]