Connecting External Midi Equipment; Controlling An External Device From The P-250; Controlling The P-250 From An External Device; Recording Your Performance On The P-250 To An External Midi Sequencer (Such As The Qy Series), Or Playing The P-250 (As A Tone Generator) From An External Midi Sequencer - Yamaha P-250 Owner's Manual

Connecting to External Devices
Connecting External MIDI
Equipment
Using a standard MIDI cable (available sepa-
rately), you can connect an external MIDI
device, and control it from the P-250. You can
also use an external MIDI keyboard or
sequencer to control the P-250's internal
sounds. Several different MIDI connection
examples are illustrated below:
The HOST SELECT switch should be set to "MIDI." Other-
wise, MIDI information will not be transmitted from the P-
250's MIDI OUT connector.
Controlling an external device
from the P-250
MIDI [OUT]
MIDI [IN]
External MIDI keyboard
or synthesizer
Controlling the P-250 from an
external device
MIDI [IN]
MIDI [OUT]
External MIDI keyboard
or synthesizer
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P-250
TIP
HOST SELECT
MIDI PC-2 Mac USB
P-250
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System Real-time External Control Sur face
HOST SELECT
MIDI PC-2 Mac USB
P-250
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System Real-time External Control Sur face
Recording your performance on the
P-250 to an external MIDI sequencer
(such as the QY series), or playing
the P-250 (as a tone generator) from
an external MIDI sequencer
HOST SELECT
MIDI PC-2 Mac USB
MIDI seqencer
P-250
NOTE
The P-250 does not receive or transmit MIDI Start (FAh),
Continue (FBh), or Stop (FCh) messages.
Controlling another MIDI device
via the MIDI [THRU] connector
External
MIDI sequencer
MIDI [OUT]
HOST SELECT
MIDI PC-2 Mac USB
MIDI [IN]
P-250
External MIDI synthesizer
In this example, P-250 performance data is transmit-
ted from the MIDI [OUT] connector.
MIDI data input from an external MIDI sequencer is out-
put as is from the MIDI [THRU] connector.
TIP
The MIDI cable should be shorter than 15 meters, and
there should be no more than three devices in a MIDI chain
(chained in series via each unit's MIDI [THRU] connector).
To connect more units, use a MIDI thru box for parallel con-
nections. You may encounter errors if the MIDI cables are
too long or if too many devices are chained together via
their MIDI [THRU] connectors.
MIDI [IN]
MIDI [OUT]
External
MIDI [IN]
MIDI [OUT]
External
MIDI synthesizer
MIDI [IN]
MIDI [THRU]
MIDI [OUT]
MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER
Real-time External Control Sur face Integrated Sampling Sequencer
Modular Synthesis Plug-in System
MIDI [IN]