Piloting Wk2 From A Midi Accordion - GEM WK2 Owner's Manual

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4 Press ENTER to activate the CHANNEL function.
5. Press ENTER once again and the display shows the first track with correspondingly assigned MIDI
channel.
Use the DIAL to assign the MIDI channel assignment.
Use the + and – buttons of the right hand selection keypad to select the 16 tracks one
after the other.
After track 16, the display shows the COMMON track with correspondingly assigned
MIDI channel followed by the CHORD track and associated channel.
You can quickly select the desired track with the corresponding Function buttons.
6. Press ESCAPE to exit the «MIDI/GENERAL» function.
Hold down the STORE PERFORMANCE button then press ENTER to store the changes
to the current Performance.
If you don't store the changes, they will lost when you select a different Performance, or
re-select the same one.
7. Play on the WK2 keyboard to send data to the external expander.
You will hear WK2 sounds play together with the expander's sounds.

PILOTING WK2 FROM A MIDI ACCORDION

Connect the accordion's MIDI OUT port to the WK2 MIDI IN then proceed as explained
below to control WK2 from the accordion:
1. Enable MIDI LOCK (set to ON in MIDI/GENERAL - refer to the Midi/General chapter for specific
information).
2. Set the CHORD channel of WK2 to the same channel as the accordion's chord section (MIDI
accordions generally use channel 2 for the Chord section).
3. Configure the MIDI channels of the WK2 tracks using the table shown below (Midi Accordion
settings).
4 . Set the COMMON channel to OFF
5. Be sure that WK2's Chord Recognition mode is set to operate in ONE FINGER mode (see AR-
RANGE MODE).
5. Extend the SPLIT Point setting to its maximum setting for the chords (see SPLIT).
NOTE: If you want to hear the WK2 sounds together with the accordion melody section,
assign the UPPER 1 (or UPPER 1 and UPPER 2) sections the same MIDI channel as the
accordions right hand section (generally, MIDI accordions use channels 1 and/or 4 for the
right hand).
You can memorise your configurations for accordion use in one or more of the 63 Perform-
ances available and save the entire set of Performances to Floppy Disk or Hard Disk.
MIDI accordion settings
DRUM= Ch 10
BASS= Ch 3
ACC1= Ch 5
Acc2= Ch 6
Acc3= Ch 7
LOWER= Ch 2
UPPER2= Ch 1
UPPER1= Ch 1
COMMON= OFF
CHORD= 2
CHANNEL
Track 01
C0I
C0I
C02
CI6
CI6
MidiLck
CHORD
C02
COMMON
OneFing>
Track 01
Track 02
Track 16
Common
Midi 69

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