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4. Assigning MIDI Program Changes to Organ Pistons
This function allows the organist to select any voice on an external MIDI device by
pressing any General piston on the organ. The "USER" program change mode must be
selected
(See Section C-2)
.
Advance to the 'MIDI PROG CHANGE' window function
(see Section A-2)
.
For this example press the General Piston 2. The display will change to:
The LCD will display the piston pressed and the MIDI program number being
transmitted by that piston. To change the value transmitted, press the
CURSOR
button
until the cursor is positioned on the program change number value. Turn the
ROTARY
DIAL
to change the program number value. Any program number of (1-128) may be
selected. (
See Section C1).
Note:
Once a MIDI program change number is assigned to a piston, that program
number will remain assigned to that piston even if the organ has been turned off.
Important!
Once MIDI program change programming is complete the user must exit the
piston programming window function, by using the
SET
and
CANCEL
pistons
(see
Section A-2)
, for any changes to take effect.
5. MIDI Bank Selecting
Many MIDI devices permit access to a variety of sounds in addition to the General MIDI
sounds. Normally these additional sounds are stored in groups called BANKS. A BANK
in MIDI terminology means a group of voices or sounds. There are two levels of banks.
One level offers two choices, High Bank and Low Bank. Each of these, High Bank and
Low Bank, has as sub-groups other level of banks, BANK Numbers.
MIDI devices can have as many as 128 sounds/voices per BANK Number. There can
also be 128 available BANK Numbers (Ø through 127). With 128 BANK Numbers, each
could contain up to 128 voices/sounds, for a total of 16,384 sounds. For an easier
explanation, think of these BANK Numbers as floors or stories in a tall building. Each
floor would contain 128 rooms and each room could then contain 128 voices.
MIDI PROG CHANGE
GEN 2 BANK 0
P: 2
GEN 2 BANK 0
P:128
