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MIDI OPERATION
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The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connections on the piano allow
you to connect it to other MIDI keyboards, tone generator modules, samplers,
sequencers,
drum machines,
computers and other signal processors.
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same MIDI channel number.
The piano can transmit and receive the following MIDI data:
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KevOn/KevOff (indicate that a note has been presssed and
released, respectively).
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Note Number (indicates which note has been pressed).
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Velocity (indicates the speed or force with which a key was
pressed).
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Foot Pedal Functions (also known as control changes).
SETTING MIDI FUNCTIONS
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Program Changes (Programs 1 through 5 can be selected
on an external MIDI instrument using the piano's Voice
Select buttons, or the piano's voices can be selected from
an external MIDI device. The program numbers for the
piano's voices are as follows: 1 = PIANO 1, 2 = PIANO
2, 3 = E PIANO, 4 = HARPSICHORD, 5 = VIBE).
Refer to the MIDI section and MIDI Implementation Chart at
the end of this manual for further information.
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down the TRANSPOSE/MIDI button then press one of the keys.
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1. MIDI TRANSMIT CHANNEL SELECT
MIDI data can be sent on anv of up to 16 MIDI channels. The
piano's MIDI Transmit channel (sending channel) should match
the MIDI Receive channel of the MIDI device that it is control-
ling.
Hold down the MIDI/TRANSPOSE button, then press one of the
keys between C1 and D#2 to select the MIDI Transmit channel
number.
NOTE:
When the piano's power is turned on, the MIDI Transmit
channel is automatically set to 1.
2. OMNI ON/OFF, MIDI caló pages SELECT
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Press these two buttons together to set OMNI on or off.
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MIDI data may be received on any of 16 MIDI channels.
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piano's MIDI Receive mode may be set to Omni On (in which E
case, MIDI data received on any or all of the MIDI channels will
be recognized) or to Omni Off (in which case, MIDI data is
received only on the single selected MIDI channel, which should
match the MIDI Transmit channel of the controlling device).
Hold down the TRANSPOSE/MIDI button, then press the PI-
ANO 1 Voice Select button to switch between Omni On and
Omni Off.
When the PIANO 1 LED is lit, the Omni mode is
turned off. To select the MIDI Receive channel, hold down the
TRANSPOSE/MIDI button and press one of the keys between
C3 and D#4 (as shown in the diagram at the start of the SETTING
MIDI FUNCTIONS section).
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setting the receiving channel.
(C,-D')
NOTE:
When the piano's power is turned on, the MIDI Receive
channel is automaticallv set to 1, and the OMNI mode is set
to ON.

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