bit MIDI MASTER KEYBOARD Owner's Manual page 6

NHAT YOU'LL FIND ON THE BACK PANEL ••••
Nh•t,
no 1udio ?!?
That's right - strange though
it
•ight see• - there •re no audio
connections to •ake: the NASTER KEYBOARD doe• not generate any sound
itself. Instead, it sends "JDI infor1ation (dat1) to the connected
units, Nhich in turn Nill use this MIDl data to play notes and change
progra• settings, to start/stop in the case of sequencers and dru•
eachines and to perfor• various •housekeeping• tasks etc.
If you have a nice large MIDI setup with •any instru1ents
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you should
try to avoid connecting ~ore than four MIDI units in series (what they
call a •daisy-chain• configuration: hooking up NIDI-Out on the "ASTER
KEYBOARD to MIDI-In
on
the first unit, patching its HlDI-Thru to HIOI-
In of the next instru1ent etc. as described above). BlT MIDI circuitry
is
of high quality and uses extreaely
fast co1ponents.
HoNever
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depending on the quality and speed of certain electronic co•ponent1
used
by
other ~anufacturers for their instruments" NIDl circuitry
(Optocouplers, for any electronics freaks out there), s•all ti•e
delays could occur, and these might •ccumulate to cause
an
audible
delay as NIDI data
is
passed through
a
chain of instru1ents. An
elegant and tidy way of co•ing to grips with large setups is to use
one or several "HIDI Thru-Boxes" {a.k.a. •NIDI Split Box• or •NJDJ
Parallel Box•), a number of Nhich are co••ercially available,
NlDl-ln and NIDJ-Thru on a NASTER KEYBOARD? Yes, sur•!
You •ight have wondered why
the
NA&TER KEYBOARD
is
equipped with
a
NIDI-In connector, There are tHo good reason1i firstly, the keyboard
is designed so that it can be •played• (or ratherz controlled) by a
re1ote keyboard. The second reason is, that the NA&TER KEVBOARD"s
built-in aicroprocessors are capable of filtering and/or otherwise
•odifying HIDI data input fro• a co1puter or sequencer for advance4
operation. This •custo1ized• NIDI datai, then available at the HIDI-
Out connectors, Nhereas the unaltered data is always routed to the
MlDI-Thru connector. But •ore about this later •••
You 1i9ht ••nt to u11 p1d•l•, too •••
The CONTROL/PEDAL socket on the back panel lets you
connect
a volu•e
pedal. Internal circuitry translates pedal action into NIDI data,
"hich can then be assigned
to
a nu1ber of different functions (such
as Vibrato or Volu1e etc.)
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depending on the particular capabilities
of your HIDI instru1ents. The FOOT SWITCH socket is used to connect
(surprise!) foot s"itches
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such as a sustain foot switch,
Another pedal
you
1ight find
useful with your NASTER KEYBOARD is the
PATCH ADVANCE pedal. Just tap your foot to step through chains of
progra•st without ever taking your fingers off the keyboard.
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