Roland EP-9e - MIDI Guidebook; Introduction to MIDI; MIDI Applications

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MIDI GUIDEBOOK
po This If You Intend To Use MIDI To Join Your Keyboard
With Other Electronic Instruments or Computers
The term MIDI is an acronym for “Musical instrument Digital Interface.”
MIDI is a standard that was created to allow electronic musical
instruments, computers and other devices to communicate with each
other. The great majority of contemporary electronic instruments
provide MIDI compatibility.
A device equipped with MIDI is easily identified by the fact that ithas
one or more MIDI Connectors. In order to share performance infor-
mation with other units, cables need to be connected between these
connectors.
The ep-9e has a MIDI IN connector, used to receive MIDI messages;
and a MIDI OUT connector, from which it sends messages.
MIDI makes the following applications possible:
e The notes you play on the ep-9e can be relayed and sounded simultaneously on
other MIDI-equipped instruments or sound modules (*1).
* Theep-9e can be played under the control of another MIDI-equipped keyboard,
or a sequencer (*2).
+ Everything you play on the ep-9e can be recorded into a sequencer (*2).
(*1) A sound module is a device which generates sound as a result of whatever
information it receives at its MIDI IN connector. Among Roland products, the
SC-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-1 Player&Recorder is a representative example of a Roland
sequencer. There is also the M7-200, which combines a sequencer and sound
module in the same unit.
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