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108 |G3 – Owner’s Manual
11.6 MIDI
Under this menu item, you will find the
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) implementation of the G3 to
configure the associated connections on the back of the unit. Furthermore, MIDI notes sent from each pad can be
individually adjusted for MIDI outputs.
For users without MIDI experience: Note that MIDI is about control data and not about sound generation itself. All
information sent via MIDI connections is for the purpose of controlling other devices by communicating in a common
language so that other devices can interpret information received via the MIDI input. In this way, other devices can be
accessed to use internal functions and sounds. Thus, sound generation ultimately takes place in a connected but
remote device. The relationship of MIDI devices within a MIDI network can be ambivalent: all can act as server and
client at the same time. You can best compare the function of MIDI in the digital music world with the role of sheet
music in the traditional way of thinking. Sheet music contains all the important information about a piece in order to
reproduce it recognisably, anywhere, with any group of musicians and any instrument (tempo, tone, instruments,
arrangement, etc.). The only condition is that the group of musicians must be familiar with reading music. By just
looking at it, no sheet of music makes music on its own; it takes instruments and musicians to create a sound and
interpret the melodies and rhythms written down. And as in the digital world, the composer, conductor and musician
can all take on roles simultaneously. In the analogy above, the author is the composer, notes are the medium and the
musician's eye is the receiver. This chain of communication has its digital counterpart in electronic music: MIDI. Since
digital devices do not have organs such as eyes and brains, nor do they have limbs to produce sound, a more appropri-
ate way of communicating is needed that takes into account the way digital hardware works and exchanges the same
quality of information as a sheet of music. An orchestra of connected MIDI talking devices will not produce a single
note from their sound generators if you hand them a written piece of sheet music. Nor would they know when to
change instruments, even if it is notated on that piece of paper. This is the job of the MIDI protocol.
G3 Connections – MIDI
MIDI out
MIDI in
USB-MIDI (Bi-directional connection in & out)
Bluetooth-MIDI