Roland ep-9 - MIDI Guidebook Introduction

MIDI GUIDEBOOK
Read This If You Intend To Use MIDI To Join Your Key-
board With Other Electronic Instruments or Computers
The term MIDI is an acronym for "Musical instrument Digital Inter-
face." MIDI is a standard that was created to allow electronic musi-
cal instruments, computers and other devices to communicate with
each other. The great majority of contemporary electronic instru-
ments provide MIDI compatibility.
A device equipped with MIDI is easily identified by the fact that it
has one or more MIDI Connectors. In order to share performance
information with other units, cables need to be connected between
these connectors.
The ep-9 has a MIDI IN connector, used to receive MIDI messages;
and a MIDI OUT connector, from which it sends messayes.
MIDI makes the following applications possible:
* The notes you play on the ep-9 can be relayed and sounded simultaneously on
other MIDI-equipped instruments or sound modules (*1).
* The ep-9 can be played under the control of another MIDI-equipped key-
board, or a sequencer (*2).
* Everything you play on the ep-9 can be recorded into a sequencer (*2).
(*1) A sound module is a device which generates sound as a resull of whatever
information it receives at its MIDEIN connector. Among Roland products, the
$C-55 Sound Canvas is probably the most well known sound module.
(*2) A sequencer is a device which is capable of recording and playing back MIDI
messages. The PR-7 Player&Recorder is a representative example of a Roland
sequencer. There is also the MT-200, which combines a sequencer and
sound module in the same unit.
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