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When OFF, the MATRIX-GR returns to normal M I D I operation. MIDI
TH RU simply passes M IOI commands from the Master controller to
the other slaves unaffected by any additional M I D I information
generated by the MATRIX-GR. MIDI OUT transmits only those
commands coming from the MATRIX-GR itself.
Since the design of the majority of MIDI synthesizers provide for a
single M I D I I N port, there is no method other than switching M I DI
cables or purchasing a M I DI Merge device to change from Master
control to MATRIX-GR control over the other slaves. M I D I ECHO
makes tt possible for the MATRIX-GR
and
its Master controller to
have complete control over the other slave instruments using only
one M I DI cable.
1 3 SPILLOVER
This feature allows you to play another synthesizer from the
MATRIX-GR via MI DI as if the second slave synthesizer we re part of
the MATRIX-6R's internal voices. This is how it works:
When SPILLOVER is OFF, playing the MATRIX-GR from the
Master normally in ROTATE or REASGN, you know that
if
you play
six notes and hold them doewn on the Master controller at the
same time, playing a seventh note will not sound - there are no
more voices left inside the MATRIX-GR to be played. Try it.
When SPILLOVER is ON, the seventh, eighth, ninth, etc. (up to
the 1 6th) notes played on the Master will be transmitted from the
MATRIX-GR on its BASIC M I OI C
2
and will be heard on a
second Slave synth connected to the MATRIX-GR. SPILLOVER
will transmtt both M I D I
Notes
and
Controllers
for SI NGLE
Patches and SPLIT Patches.
As an example, if the MATRIX-6R's Basic Channel is set to 1
(MASTER Page Parameter #OO) , Notes and controllers will
spillover on Channel 3. If the MATRIX-GR is set to transmit on
Channel 2, Notes and Controllers will spillover on Channel 4, and
so forth.
Exceptions
UNISON works the same way but with a slight twist. If six keys are
held down on the Master controller, extra keys played will be
spilled to the Basic C 2. But due to the nature of the
UNISON Mode playing style (playing only
one
key activates all six
Voices at once), SPILLOVER has a somewhat limited use when
the MATRIX-GR is in UNISON.
REAROB Mode does not permit SPILLOVER due to its design.
Since notes in excess of six being held on the Master controller at
any one time are robbed from the MATRIX-6R's internal voices,
SPILLOVER simply does not occur in this Mode. What actually
happens when SPILLOVER occurs is that "excess" notes played
in ROTATE or REASGN on the Master controller are transmitted
out M I D I from the MATRIX-GR instead of being ignored as they
would be normally.
M atrix-GR Owner's Manual
