Connecting The Is35 To A Digital Piano - Korg iS35 User Manual

the Keyboard Assign, Keyboard Mode and Chord
Scanning Mode sections will affect the notes you play.
The special Global channel is programmed over the
MIDI 1 channel. You can change arrangement or Key-
board Set by sending a program change message to

Connecting the iS35 to a digital piano

The digital piano can be used as master keyboard to
control the iS35. In general, the piano keyboard is
divided in two parts and the left part is muted. You
can now play the piano with your right hand and the
chords for the automatic accompaniment with your
left hand.
If the left part of the piano keyboard cannot be muted,
the chords played with the left hand will be too low
and too compact and will sound very bad. The Echo
Back function of the iS35 allows for dividing the piano
keyboard at the split point of the iS35.
When the Echo Back function is active, the iS35 sends a
Local Off message to the piano. This message discon-
nects the piano keyboard from its internal sound gen-
erator. The notes played on the keyboard are sent to
the iS35 that uses the notes below the split point for
the chord recognition and retransmits the notes above
the split point to the piano to allow it to play its inter-
nal sound. At this stage, the left hand only plays the
accompaniment chords and the right hand plays the
piano sound.
Digital Piano 1:
CHORD 1
(GLOBAL)
Chords
MIDI OUT
MIDI OUT
Piano
channel 2 (special Arrangement channel) or 3 (special
Keyboard Set channel), respectively.
The chord recognition mode is determined by the sta-
tus of the Chord Recognition Mode section and the
"ChordRecog (Chord recognition mode)" parameter
in the Global mode (see page 162).
Digital Piano 2:
CHORD 1
(GLOBAL)
Chords
(Lower)
MIDI OUT
If you select the "Digital Piano 1" setup, the right hand
will only play the piano. If you select the "Digital
Piano 2" setup, the right hand can also play the Upper
1 and Upper 2 parts, where the left hand plays the
Lower part of the iS35.
Connection and settings
To connect the piano to the iS35 follow this procedure:
1 Connect the MIDI OUT connector of the piano to
the MIDI IN 1 connector of the iS35.
Connect the MIDI IN connector of the piano to
2
the MIDI OUT connector of the iS35.
In this way the iS35 and the piano are connected in
a "MIDI loop".
3 Turn the digital piano on.
Note: When the Echo Back function is active, when
turned on, the iS35 transmits a Local Off message
over the MIDI OUT connector. Always turn on the
piano before the iS35.
Getting Started• MIDI
MIDI OUT
Piano
(Upper 1)
(Upper 2)
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