MIDI SUPPLEMENT
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CREATING A “MIDI PRESET” WITH THE EMULATOR II
The Emulator II Sequencer is designed to drive MIDI instruments via the MIDI OUT connector.
In many cases, you will want to create a Preset that doesn’t play any notes on the Emulator II,
but only sends note data from the Sequencer out to other MIDI equipment.
To do this, make up a “MIDI Preset” by creating a Preset (PRESET DEFINITION 21) then going
through the MIDI set-up (PRESET DEFINITION 30). Do not assign any Voices to the Preset,
and make sure that the Local Control set-up option is set to “yes” (or you will not be able to write
notes into the Sequencer using the Emulator II keyboard).
Hint:
If you create a number of MIDI Presets to drive different instruments over different
channels, we suggest including the channel number in the Preset name.
MIDI controllers cause a lot of confusion all by themselves, so hooking them up to other
instruments doesn’t make things any easier. Fortunately, though, the Emulator II is quite’
‘helpful in setting up the MIDI controllers functions.
A MIDI controller could be pitch bend, velocity, modulation, portamento, overall level, or
whatever. Each controller sends out data about its status (i.e. the position of a pot or switch)
over a particular controller “channel”, which has its own unique number. This channel is not to
be confused with the basic channel assigned to the instrument; the controller channel data is
transmitted as part of the basic channel information.
With MIDI, the only defined controllers are pitch bend and channel pressure (dynamics); it is up
to the manufacturers to decide which controllers will be accessible via MIDI, and what each
controller’s number will be.
While this lack of standardization often causes problems with MIDI set-ups, the Emulator II
takes care of those problems by letting you transmit the left wheel, right wheel, and pedal data
over a MIDI controller number from 00 to 31, or as the pitch wheel (pwh) or channel pressure
(chp) controller. These can be set up individually for each Preset. Note: The Emulator II does
not transmit or receive on MIDI controller channels 32-63; however, sustain pedal information is
transmitted over controller 64, the de facto industry standard number for sustain pedal data.
For example, suppose you’re driving Synth A, which expects to find vibrato data coming in over
the channel labelled “controller 01”. Let’s also suppose that the Emulator II’s right wheel has
vibrato as its destination in a particular Preset. By assigning the right wheel to controller 01
during the MIDI set-up (PRESET DEFINITION 30), turning up the Emulator II’s right wheel will
add vibrato to Synth A.
If Synth B expects to find vibrato data labelled as “controller 07”, no problem. During MIDI
set-up, program the Emulator II’s right wheel to controller 07. When Synth B looks for vibrato
information at controller 07, the Emulator II will be supplying it.
So much for transmitting data from the Emulator II. When it comes to receiving data from other
MIDI ‘instruments, up to three of the Emulator II’s Real Time Control destinations (Pitch, Filter
Fc, Level, LFO to Pitch, LFO to Filt Fc, LFO to Level, and Attack Rate) can be controlled
simultaneously via another MIDI instrument’s controllers. Here’s how the process works.
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