Yamaha A5000 Owner's Manual - Page 112

PLAY-CONTROL Channel Setup [PLAY] Button → [F6] Button → Knob 1 to select "PLAY-ChSetup" This page selects how controllers are set when you switch into this program from another program. You can choose to retain the previous control-change values, or else to temporarily reset these values to 0. You can set the operation separately for each MIDI channel. You can also specify how note playback is affected by MIDI note-on and note-off messages. Turn action Press action Knob 1 Page Tree View Knob 2 MIDI Ch MIDI Knob 3 Controller Reset - Knob 4 - - Knob 5 Note On Type - Knob 1 [ Turn] Page Selects display pages. [ Press] Tree View Calls the Tree View display (page 83). Knob 2 [ Turn] MIDI Ch (MIDI Channel) Selects the MIDI receive channel to which the Controller Reset and Note On Type settings will apply. • Once the MIDI channel has been specified you can set the Controller Reset and Note On Type parameters via Knobs 3 and 5, respectively. [Range] A01 - A16, B01 - B16 (01 - 16 on the A4000) [ Press] MIDI Allows setting the MIDI Ch parameter from an external MIDI controller (page 82). • When setting the MIDI channel via MIDI on the A5000, receive the appropriate MIDI messages via the MIDI IN-A connector to set channels A01 - A16, and via the MIDI IN-B connector to set channels B01 - B16. Knob 3 [ Turn] Controller Reset Determines whether the last received controller data will be retained or reset when a different program is selected. [Range] off, on • off ... The last controller data is retained. • on ... The controller data is reset. • As an example, consider the following programs: PROGRAM 001 and PROGRAM 002. PROGRAM 001 ... This program uses a sample to which the modulation wheel is assigned for pitch modulation depth control (via MIDI receive channel 1). PROGRAM 002 ... This program uses a sample to which the modulation wheel is assigned for filter modulation depth control (via MIDI receive channel 1). • Now, if you're playing PROGRAM 001 and the modulation wheel has been used to apply heavy pitch modulation, then you switch to PROGRAM 002, the following will occur: If the MIDI channel 1 Control Reset = off for PROGRAM 002 ... PROGRAM 002 will beging playing with correspondingly heavy filter modulation. If the MIDI channel 1 Control Reset = on for PROGRAM 002 ... PROGRAM 002 will begin playing with no filter modulation. Filter modulation will then be applied the instant the modulation wheel is moved. Knob 5 [ Turn] Note On Type Determines how notes are played when note-on and note-off messages are received. [Range] Normal, Toggle • Normal ... The note begins playing when a note-on message is received, and stops when a noteoff message is received. • Toggle ... Note-off messages are ignored. Any note which was previously sounding on the same MIDI channel will be stopped and the new note will begin playing when a note-on message is received (only one note can sound at a time on any one MIDI channel). 112 Chapter 4 PLAY Mode • A5000/A4000 q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q