Communication Via The Usb Midi Port; Midi Parameters - Roland V-Accordion FR-18 diatonic Owner's Manual

V-Accordion FR-18 diatonic
Connecting to MIDI devices
However, if you wish or need to, you can assign the sec-
tions of your FR-18 diatonic different channels than
those assigned at the factory.
Communication via the USB MIDI
port
If you use a USB cable (commercially available) to con-
nect the FR-18 diatonic's USB MIDI port to a USB port
of your computer, you'll be able to do the following.
By transferring MIDI data between the FR-18 diatonic
and your sequencer software, you'll be able to enjoy a
wide range of possibilities for music production and
editing.
1.
Use a standard USB cable (A‰B-type con-
nectors, commercially available) to connect
the FR-18 diatonic to your computer as
shown below.
USB connector
Computer
2.
Select the USB driver you want to use (see
p. 46).
3.
Refer to the Roland website for system
requirements.
Roland website: http://www.roland.com/
If the computer doesn't "see" the FR-18 diatonic
Normally, you don't need to install a driver in order
to connect the FR-18 diatonic to your computer.
However, if some problem occurs, or if the perfor-
mance is poor, using the Roland original driver may
solve the problem.
For details on downloading and installing the Roland
original driver, refer to the Roland website:
http://www.roland.com/
Specify the USB driver you want to use, and then
install the driver. For details, refer to page 46.
Caution
• To avoid the risk of malfunction and/or damage to
external speakers, always turn the volume all the
way down and switch off the power on all devices
before you make any connections.
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USB MIDI port
USB cable
• Only MIDI data can be transmitted and received via
USB. Audio data cannot be transmitted or received.
• Switch on the power to the FR-18 diatonic before
you start up the MIDI application on your com-
puter. Never turn the FR-18 diatonic's power on/
off while your MIDI application is running.

MIDI parameters

The MIDI parameters belong to the "Function" environ-
ment. The setting procedure is therefore the same. See
p. 42 for details.
General remark: MIDI data are only transmitted when
"MIDI OUT/IN" (see p. 50) is set to "Out". The "RX" part
mentioned below is only used when "MIDI OUT/IN" is set
to "In".
MIDI TX/RX Channel Treble
1~16, Off
This parameter allows you to set the MIDI channel for
the treble (accordion) section. This assignment
applies both to the transmission ("TX") and reception
("RX") of MIDI data. Select "Off" if the treble section
should neither receive nor transmit MIDI data.
The procedure for setting (and checking) the MIDI
channel using the registers is slightly different from
the usual procedure, because it also involves using
the [ORCHESTRA/ORGAN] button.
Press [ORCHESTRA/ORGAN] once (it lights):
Register Status
1 lights
flashes
dark
2 lights
flashes
dark
3 lights
flashes
dark
4 lights
flashes
dark
Press [ORCHESTRA/ORGAN] twice (it flashes):
Register Status
1 lights
flashes
dark
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Default setting: 1
MIDI channel
1
2
Off
3
4
Off
5
6
Off
7
8
Off
MIDI channel
9
10
Off