The Psr-510 Midi Connectors; Simple Midi Control; Midi Sequence Recording - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-510 Owner's Manual

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The PSR-510 MIDI IN connector receives MIDI data from an external
MIDI device which can be used to control the PSR-510. The MIDI OUT
connector transmits MIDI data generated by the PSR-510 (e.g. note and
velocity data produced by playing the keyboard).
Most MIDI keyboards (including the PSR-510, of course) transmit note
and velocity (touch response) information via the MIDI OUT connector
whenever a note is played on the keyboard. If the MIDI OUT connector is
connected to the MIDI IN connector of a second keyboard (synthesizer,
etc.) or a tone generator (essentially a synthesizer with no keyboard), the
second keyboard or tone generator will respond precisely to notes played on
the original transmitting keyboard. The result is that you can effectively
play two instruments at once, providing thick multi-instrument sounds. The
PSR-510 also transmits "program change" data when one of its voices is
selected. Depending on how the receiving device is set up, the correspond-
ing voice will be automatically selected on the receiving keyboard or tone
generator whenever a voice is selected on the PSR-510.
The PSR-510 is capable of receiving the same MIDI data, so a second
MIDI keyboard connected to the PSR-510 MIDI IN connector can be used
to remotely play the PSR-510 and select voices as required.
Although the PSR-510 features a built-in "sequencer" (the SONG
MEMORY is a type of sequencer), the same type of musical information
transfer described above can be used for more sophisticated MIDI sequence
recording using an external sequencer or music computer. A MIDI sequence
recorder or music computer can be used to "record" MIDI data received
from a PSR-510, for example. When the recorded data is played back, the
PSR-510 automatically "plays" the recorded performance in precise detail.
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