Yamaha CP300 Owner's Manual - Page 91

Reference Connecting to a Computer and Other MIDI Devices Controlling an External MIDI Keyboard This connection lets you play the sounds of an external MIDI tone generator (synthesizer, tone generator module, etc.) from the keyboard of the CP300. Use this connection to play the sounds of the connected instrument in a layer with the CP300, or use the sophisticated Zone functions (page 39) to set up splits in the sounds. MIDI IN MIDI OUT CP300 External MIDI keyboard or synthesizer, such as the S/SY/EX series Splitting the Sound between the CP300 and an External Tone Generator by MIDI Channel Using the connection example shown above, you can play both instruments and have them separately sound different parts. To use this feature, you must set the CP300's output channel and the external tone generator's receive channel to the same channel number. Set the MIDI Transmit Channel via the "MIDI Out Channel" parameter in the MIDI Settings menu while turning on the power (page 65). While the Master mode is turned on, set the MIDI Transmit Channel via the "MIDI Out Channel" parameter in the Master Edit menu (page 55). Controlling Another MIDI Device via MIDI THRU MIDI THRU simply re-transmits the MIDI messages received via MIDI IN. In the example below, the MIDI messages generated by playing an external keyboard are transmitted to an external tone generator via the MIDI THRU connector on the CP300. The MIDI data of your performance on the CP300 are transmitted to an external device via the MIDI OUT connector on the CP300. MIDI OUT C MIDI OUT MIDI IN MIDI THRU External MIDI keyboard CP300 MIDI IN External MIDI tone generator MIDI IN MUSIC PRODUCTION SYNTHESIZER External MIDI synthesizer CP300 Owner's Manual 91