[korgypark] Re: Midi channels
- From: "Thomas Anderssen" <thomas.anderssen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: korgypark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:53:38 +0200
Good morning.
As I mentioned, it is important that you have the "Independent Synth/MIDI
Out" box checked in the driver setup window (Control Panel, Sound and
Multimedia devices, Hardware, Korg PC I/F driver) . This gives you two
"channel 10:s". One on port 1 and other on port 2. I.e. this gives you 32 midi
channels to play with - simultaneously.
What you basically do is to assign Port 1 to the PC I/F Synth Out and Port 2
to PC /IF MIDI Out. Then the midi data assigned to X5 goes to the X5
internals (PC I/F Synth Out, port 1) and "the other" channel 10 (assigned of
course to the PC I/F MIDI Out, port 2) goes to the MIDI OUT connector on
the X5.
On the other hand, if you do not have the "Independent Synth/MIDI Out" box
checked in the driver setup, then consider the following:
- You have only 16 channels to use
- All the data sent to channel 10 will go to the X5 internal sound machine
AND in parallell to the MIDI OUT connector.
Now, if you send a bank change to bank 7425 in this state, what happens?
Well, the X5 will turn channel 10 to "Timbre Off", i.e. no sound will be
produced regardless of what data comes out of the sequencer on that
channel. This is assuming, that you in Global mode has set Bank Select to
ENA, otherwise it will ignore the bank change message.
As far as the drum machine (on the MIDI OUT wire) is concerned, it may do
two things: Ignore the bank select message and continue playing (assuming
that it has bank change disabled) or try to change to bank 7425, which
probably do not exist, in which case the drum machine will either stop
producing sound, or go on drumming...
You have to rtfm for the drum machine to be sure, or simply try it.
This was a lotta text, but maybe it clarifies some stuff... It took me about 6
moths to figure this out, when I started, so Good Luck...
cheers, Thomas
On 8 Jan 2002 at 9:29, cdmando wrote:
>
> But wouldnt that also prevent the drum machine from getting the information
> as well? Or will everything on channel 10 still be passed thru to the drum
> machine?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Anderssen <thomas.anderssen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <korgypark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:53 AM
> Subject: [korgypark] Re: Midi channels
>
>
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > It is quite easy.
> > Select Timbre Off on channel 10 in your sequencing program. This can
> > be done by selecting bank 7425 (decimal) or sending the following
> > controllers: 00 58 00 00 xx (xx = any value). Make sure that you use
> > it for the Korg only, i.e. that you have selected the check box
> > "Independent Synth/MIDI Out" in the Serial driver seutp window (if
> > you use the serial interface).
> >
> > cheers, Thomas
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7 Jan 2002 at 13:12, cdmando wrote:
> >
> > > Please forgive me on this one but my manual is packed away somewhere
> > > after a recent move. Is there a way to have the Korg X5 ignore any
> > > one midi channel? What I want to do is come out of my PC to the
> > > Korg then "thru" to my drum machine. Of course I do not want the
> > > Korg playing the drum notes too so I thought If I could "mute"
> > > channel 10 from the Korg and send it thru to the drum machine that
> > > would be great. Any way to do this??
> > Thomas Anderssen
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