Hidi Out - bit MIDI MASTER KEYBOARD Owner's Manual

This loop is, in fact, the NID! equivalent of acoustic feedback - or a
'howl round', When you press a key on the keyboard, the MIDI signal
generated Hill start chasing its own tail through the loop. If you
have a synthesizer hooked up to this cycle, you'll hear your note
repeated again and again, at an incredible speed. Depending on exactly
how ~uch other information is being transmitted, and just how long you
can stand· it before interrupting the cycle, you'll find that one or
more of the HIDI units in your system may go down. Vou should ~ake
sure this never
happens -
and
if
it should, reset the
BIT "ASTER
KEYBOARD by
pressing the
TAPE
button twice or turning the
power
off
and then
on
again.
THE RIBHT CONNECTIONS
MIDI
MtDlt
MIDI
MIDI
MIDI
I
IN OUT
IN
our
r
OUT 2
[OD
MIDI MERGE (MIX}
I I
l
OFF!!!
SEQUENCER
SLAVES
RIGHT
MASTER
As
you know already, we can
divide MIDI data
betHeen the
two MIDI
OUT
connections. Let's connect the sequencer to MIDI OUT 1 and &end data
to the slaved units over MIDI OUT 2. In this case, HIDI OUT 1 should
be set to transmit on MIDI channel 1 only, while on MIDI OUT 2 all
signals are go, and all 16 LEDs in the •atrix can blink. (Details on
how to activate MIDI channels are in found in the KEYBOARD HAP
section, under MIDI
CHANNELS TRS,
Page 12), In the sequencer you
record off t1 ID I channel 1
1
and t.r_an
s111i
t
over channels 2 thru 1 b , This
gives you a 'clean' bi-directional connection.
It ~ight be easier to avoid
MIDI NERGE
problems entirely
by
connecting
the external sequencer to either of the MIDI DUTs
1
and only linking
the slaves directly to the external sequencer, but you would lose out
on
most
of the advantages
that
the BIT HASTER KEYBDARD's
advanced
features give you.
DON'T RECORD IN DOUBLE SOUND HODE
Another important point Mhen using an external sequencer: don't record
using Patches where you have programmed double or multiple sounds, Why
not? ~sing double sounds lets you
have
several MIDI units play the
sa~e notes; to do this the
HASTER KEYBOARD
sends the same note on/off
data several times, for different MIDt channels. When in record Mode,
the external sequencer disregards incoming MIDI channels, but
registers all notes transmitted - and will therefore fill its aemory
up to three ti~es as fast.
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