Chapter 4
MIDI Setups Mode
Up to now youÕve been operating your Stage Piano exclusively in Internal Voices
mode (unless of course youÕre like most readers and have tried MIDI Setups mode
anyway). YouÕve learned that you can set the physical controllers, like ribbons and
pedals, to transmit to desired MIDI destination numbers; transpose the keyboard;
send a MIDI Program Change; specify the MIDI channel; and set the effects for each of
the 32 interval voices. This entire collection of information, along with a sound and an
effect, constitutes the Internal Voices Setup, which you can save in memory.
Now imagine 32 of these setups, each of which can have different parameter settings,
that can be called up at the press of a button. Then further imagine that each setup is
split into two parts, each of which has all of these setup parameters but is active only
over a part of the keyboard range. What you have imagined is MIDI Setups mode,
which weÕll explain next.
Selecting Setups
First youÕll need to switch to MIDI Setups mode. Check that all of the LEDs to the left
of the display are off meaning youÕre in Play mode. If they are not, press the Play/Edit
button until they go out. Next check the LED beneath the display labeled MIDI Setups.
If it is off, press the Internal/Setup button to change to MIDI Setups mode and
illuminate the LED. If the display shows a question about saving (like ss
ss
uu
uu
ss
ss
aa
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),
and you donÕt know what that means, refer to Saving The Edited
Parameters on page 3-8, or just press the No arrow button.
Now youÕre in MIDI Setups mode and can select different MIDI Setups the same way
you selected different sounds before. The sound associated with each MIDI Setup is
programmable, so it doesnÕt necessarily correspond to the labels above the Sound/Setup
Select buttons (although the factory-default MIDI Setups do correspond). For this
reason, itÕs good to think of MIDI Setups in terms of numbers (which are printed below
the buttons and shown on the display) rather than names. See below for more on the
sound and the two external MIDI programs that are associated with each MIDI Setup.
NOTE: The sound associated with a setup may be different from the name printed above its
select button.
One other note about selection of MIDI Setups: it may be important to avoid passing
through an intermediate setup when switching to an even-numbered (green) setup. By
performing the necessary two button presses rapidly, the Stage Piano logic will skip
the odd (red) setup entirely. Practice this a few times; youÕll be able to see whether the
red selection is skipped. You donÕt have to be super-quick; a tempo about like double-
clicking a computer mouse is sufÞcient.
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