TC Electronic TC 2290 - 8.1 MIDI with the TC 2290

8.1 MIDI with the TC 2290
If you don’t know or would like to refresh what MIDI is there is a seperate note tc-apn.06 ‘What
is MIDI’ in sec. [11].
8.11 MIDI Applications with the TC 2290
lf you own instruments with MIDI, the TC 2290 will be even more attractive to you, as you can
connect it to your instruments in various ways.
The application you will be using most is probably the linking of the TC 2290 presets to the pre-
sets of your electronic keyboard, so you will be able to recall both the preset sound of your
keyboard and the accompanying effect on your TC 2290 at the touch of only a single key.
Especially for performing musicians this effectively reduces the number of ‘keystrokes’
between each tune in a busy live-situation. Using the midi exclusive midi control of the TC 2290
a lot of applications with computer and sequencer interfaces are possible. With the sampleop-
tion some new possibilities are added.
8.1.2 MIDI Enable
In order to make the TC 2290 respond to MIDI IN, press the <MIDI ENABLE>. The TC 2290 will
only respond to the MIDI when the LED is lit. This function is especially useful in temporarily
disconnecting the TC 2290 from your MIDI system, in order to avoid some of the preset chan-
ges.
If you are setting up a sound on the TC 2290, checking with different instrument sounds (pre-
sets), it’s nice, to quickly be able to disconnect the common preset changes.
If you are using a sequencer this becomes even more important, when recording, listening and
setting sounds, over and over again.
8.1.3 OMNI on/off
On most of the MIDI output control informations an ‘address label’ is put, this is called the MIDI
channel number.
With the help of an OMNI on/off control the receiver either ignores this address label and just
responds to everything (OMNI on) or the receiver ’reads’ and responds only if the channel
‘address label’ number is ‘correct’.
Another way of visualizing this, is by imagening the MIDI channels as channels of a 16 track
recording. The similarity is that with OMNI on all channels are heard simultaneously. Listening
only to a single of the 16 tracks corresponds to OMNI off.
OMNI ON
If you have a fairly simple MIDI setup, you will probably not need the channelization possibility.
Maybe you just want to run one or two polyphonic synthesizers together with your TC 2290. In
this case you do not have to bother about channels at all.
The MIDI standard has foreseen this situation and a MIDI MODE has been specified for this
situation. This is called the OMNI ON mode. In this mode the connected instruments forget all
about channels when receiving so that all informations on the 16 channels are responded to.
If you put your TC 2290 in OMNI ON mode, it will react to preset changes on any MIDI channel.
This means that you do no have to check that the channel of your MIDI of your MIDI instrument
and the TC 2290 are matching.