Viscount Maestro - MIDI Settings

Viscount Maestro – Grande - Sinfonia
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8.5. MIDI SETTINGS
Enabling the GLOBAL SETTINGS option, then pressing the F1 button, or the
ENTER button if the
1-MIDI
field is selected, you have access to the MIDI settings
screen. The following options are available:
1-IN
MIDI input configuration;
2-OUT
MIDI output configuration;
3-TEMPLATE
recall of presets for the overall MIDI configuration
The
Loc.KeyBrd
,
Loc.Style
and
Loc.Songs
fields, which can be edited by
toggling the check mark in the related boxes, enable or disable the internal synthesis
(Viscount and XG), allowing the instrument to act as a mere MIDI event generator.
When the
Loc.KeyBrd
box is unchecked, the notes played on the keyboard will only be
sent to the MIDI output, while the internal synthesis will stay idle, whatever timbre or
mode is selected. The same applies for
Loc.Style
and
Loc.Songs
fields, relating to the
automatic accompaniment and to the recorder, respectively.
By pressing the F1 button you enter the MIDI input settings screen. Here you find
the following fields:
R.Time
, enabling System Realtime input commands for the
automatic accompaniment,
EX
, enabling System Exclusive input messages;
Style EX
,
enabling style-related System Exclusive input messages;
Clk ext
, enabling
synchronization with an input MIDI Realtime Clock.
Finally, pressing the F6 button, the user can access the pair of screens showing
the channel options. Each MIDI input channel has a selectable internal destination
(Sez1, Sez2, Bass, one of the 16 XG channels, OFF), the possibility of filtering Program
Change and Control Change messages, and a programmable pitch transposition of up
to +/-32 halftones.
The MIDI output settings screen is entered by pressing the F2 button. It shows
the following fields:
Out KeyB
, enabling the transmission of MIDI messages coming
from the keyboard;
Out Sty.
, enabling the transmission of MIDI messages coming from
the recorder;
R.Time
, enabling System Realtime output commands from the automatic
accompaniment,
EX
and
Style EX
, enabling System Exclusive output, generic and
style-related, respectively.
Pressing the F1 button enables the MIDI DUMP options: it is possible to dump
any number of performance memories (see Paragraph 8.2), by selecting the first and
the last one to be dumped, and then pressing the F1 button to perform the dump;
moreover, all the MIDI settings can be dumped via MIDI using the F6 key.
Finally, pressing the F6 button, the user can access the pair of screens showing
the channel options. Each MIDI output channel has a selectable internal source (Sez1,
Sez2, Bass, one of the 16 XG channels, OFF), the possibility of filtering Program
Change and Control Change messages, and a programmable pitch transposition of up
to +/-32 halftones.