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Internal Voices Mode
Sending a MIDI Program Change
Sending a MIDI Program Change
You can change the program (sound) in an external device from the front panel of your
Stage Piano quickly and easily without leaving Play mode:
1. While in Play mode, press the
MIDI Prog Chg
(MIDI Program Change)
buttonÑitÕs the lower-left editing button. The display will change to the last
sent program number (or Ñ if none).
2. Enter the desired new program number (1Ð128) by using the
Up
or
Down
arrow buttons Ñor the digit buttons.
3. When the desired number is showing, press the
Enter
button. Press
Cancel
instead if you decide not to send a program change. A MIDI Program Change
command will be sent on the current MIDI Transmit Channel. The new
program number will persist in the display brießy, then it will revert to the
current Internal Voice selection.
The next notes you play will be the newly selected sound in your external module.
Depending on the external moduleÕs design, notes that were sounding just before the
program change was sent may either be unaffected, cut off, or take on some
characteristics of the newly selected sound.
Just as opinions differ on whether 2000 or 2001 is the millennium year, some modules
begin numbering their programs at zero while others begin at 1. The former type will
switch to a program number thatÕs 1 lower than you specify.
Modifying Other Internal Voice Parameters
Internal Voices mode is really a special
MIDI Setup
with a number of parameters
governing what happens when you select Internal Voices mode, and how your
keystrokes and control movements are interpreted and sent. This section describes the
parameters used by Internal Voices mode. More detail can be found in Chapter 4,
which describes MIDI Setups in general. However, even if you are not using MIDI,
many of these parameters will still affect the internal sound module.
NOTE
: Some parameters marked on the front panel are not relevant to Internal Voices mode,
and cannot be selected for examination or editing.
MIDI Program
1–128 and Off
SpeciÞes the MIDI Program Change number sent whenever changing to Internal
Voices mode.
Off
means do not send a program change.
MIDI Bank Sel Lo
0–127 and Off
SpeciÞes the MIDI Bank Select number(s) sent in conjunction with MIDI Program
Change to further specify the program desired. See
MIDI Bank Sel Lo, MIDI Bank Sel
on page 4-4 for more about Bank Select.
