Gewa G9, Owner'S Manual

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Control Options
Control Description Control 1 Control 2
Off Disables Control Function Off Off
Kit Select Browse Drumkit Library Previous Drum Kit Next Drum Kit
Fixed Hi-Hat Switch between fixed Hi-Hat and open Hi-Hat Closed Hi-Hat Open Hi-Hat
Stage Mode (Open) Toggles between On Stage and Home Screen Stage Mode Home
Song Player Controls basic Player Functions Pause Stop/Play
Setlist Tile Change Cycle through Stage Tiles Previous Setlist Tile Next Setlist Tile
Control Sockets: (Back of the Console)
Foot Switch Foot SW
Pad Switch Aux 3, Aux 4
12.3 M
ODULE
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This module hosts the MIDI ( Musical Instrument Digital Interface ) implementation of the G9 to con-
figure the associated ports of the rear panel. Apart from that, MIDI notes sent from each pad can
be defined and modified individually for MIDI outputs. These settings are hosted in
Kit Editor mode.
General Settings on the other hand handles global MIDI properties
(See also section 9.2.2 Pad MIDI Set-
tings on page 51)
.
For users who are new to MIDI:
Note, that MIDI is all about control data and not sound generation itself. All information sent through
MIDI connections serve the purpose of controlling other devices by communicating in terms of a
common language, so that other devices can interpret information received via
MIDI Input to
trigger certain events on their inside employing internal features and sounds. Thus, sound generation
finally takes place in a connected, but remote device. The relationship of MIDI devices inside a MIDI
network can be ambivalent: All can function as server and client at the same time.
You can compare the function of MIDI in the digital music world best to the role of sheet music in
the traditional way of thinking. Sheet music contains all important information about a piece to
reproduce it recognizably, everywhere, with any group of musicians and any instrument (Tempo,
key, instruments, arrangement, etc.). The only condition is, that the group of musicians is familiar with
reading chart music. Looking at a piece of sheet music does not play notes by itself, it requires
instruments and musicians to generate a sound and play the melodies and rhythms transcribed.
And as in the digital world, composer, conductor and musician can take all roles at the same time.
In the analogy above the originator is the composer, sheet music the medium and the eye of the
musician the receiver. This chain of communication does have its digital counterpart in electronic
music:
MIDI . Since digital devices don´t have organic eyes and brains, nor do they possess the limbs
to produce the sound, a more adequate way of communication is required, which considers the
functioning of a digital piece of hardware and exchanges the same quality of information as written
sheet music does. An orchestra of connected, MIDI-speaking devices won´t play a single note out
of their sound engines if one hands out a written piece of sheet music to them, nor would they know
when to change the instrument, even if it is written down on that said piece of paper. This is the task
of the
MIDI Protocol .