Operation Manual

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PLAYING MIDI FILES
In order to play a MIDI File, turn on the MIDJAY.
1. Press the Master Folder MIDI File Player button. The top
of the screen shows the Folder location “C:\MIDI File” and
it lists all the contents of this Folder.
The rst column of the screen shows the type of File with a
sign. These Folders might contain other Folders or Files as
well. (You can use Folders to easily group and associate
different kinds of Songs or artists for an example). The
second column shows the number assigned to each File
within the Folder as it was loaded into the Hard Disk of the MIDJAY.
2. Highlight (using either the Alpha Dial wheel or “∧” and “∨” Cursor keys) the File you wish to play and
press Enter or Start/Pause to start playing it. If you select a Folder “Folder sign here”, the Files within this
Folder will be displayed once you press Enter. Proceed as above to select and play any of the Files within
the selected Folder.
EDITING A MIDI FILE
In order to edit a MIDI File:
1. Select a MIDI File and play it with Start or Enter. Press the
Edit button to go to the “MIDI File” Edit Menu where the
Editable parameters are located.
2. Select “GM Part” and press Enter to access the “GM Part
Edit” screen.
You can now modify the various General MIDI (GM) parts
as you see t by using the Cursor “∧” and “∨” keys to
highlight the associated selection and changing its value
with the Alpha Dial wheel.
Part: This is associated with the track of the MIDI File. (Think
of this as your band with a maximum of 16 Players!!). As
you turn the Alpha Dial wheel to go through all 16 parts,
their associated Voices, Volumes... etc are displayed on the
screen. There are 16 parts in total and for each part, you
have its associated
• Voice: This is the Voice that is used by this part (e.g.
Piano, Guitar). You can highlight this and change the
Voices for this part using the Alpha Dial wheel.
• Volume: This determines how loud the selected Voice (above) is relative to the other Voices of the other
parts/tracks.
• Mute: Used to turn ON/OFF this particular part.
• Solo: Used to play only this particular part and mute all others.
• Shift: Used to ‘tune’ the Voice currently being used.
• Pan: This is used to create a Stereo effect of having this particular Voice more to the left or right speakers.
Values of 0-63 are for the left, while 65-123 are for the right. The value of 64 is in the middle for both left and
right speakers equally.
• Rev: Used to adjust the Reverb level.
• Effect: For the type of effects being applied to this Voice/part.
• Level: Used to adjust the level of the Effects being used.
• Rx Ch: This is the MIDI reception channel. Incase you want to communicate with other devices, this is
used to map this part to MIDI information coming into the MIDJAY’s MIDI input.
• Tx Ch: This is the MIDI transmission channel for this part. For communication with other devices, this is