User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Let’s start!
- Playing and singing
- The SongBook
- Customizing and editing the Sound sets
- Customizing, recording and editing the Styles
- Customizing, recording and editing the Songs
- Customizing and editing the Sounds
- Listening and customizing the Sounds
- Editing the Sounds
- Setting the Sound’s basic parameters
- Setting the oscillator’s basic parameters
- Programming the Damper pedal
- Equalizing the Sound
- Setting the Drum Kit’s basic parameters
- Equalizing the Drum Kit
- Mixing and retriggering the drum samples
- Modulating pitch
- Programming the pitch envelope (Pitch EG)
- Programming the filters
- Modulating the filters
- Programming the filter envelope (Filter EG)
- Programming amplitude and pan
- Modulating amplitude
- Programming the amplitude envelope (Amp EG)
- Programming the LFO
- Adding effects to the Sound
- Sound Edit utilities
- AMS (Alternate Modulation Sources)
- Writing the Sounds
- Managing the User Samples
- The Effects
- Effects for the MIDI Sounds
- Adapting reverb to the room size
- Effects list
- DMS (Dynamic Modulation Sources)
- Dynamics (Dynamic)
- EQ and Filters (EQ/Filter)
- Overdrive, Amp models, and Mic models (OD Amp Mic)
- Chorus, Flanger, and Phaser (Cho/Fln Phaser)
- Modulation and Pitch Shift (Mod./P.Shift)
- Delay
- Reverb and Early Reflections (Reverb ER)
- Mono-Mono Serial (Mono-Mono)
- Double Size
- Limiter, Master EQ
- Effects for the MIDI Sounds
- Global settings, Preferences
- MIDI Connections
- MIDI
- Introduction to MIDI
- Quick settings using MIDI Presets
- MIDI communication settings
- Synchronizing Tempo with other instruments
- Programming the MIDI channels
- Installing the KORG USB MIDI Driver
- Connecting HAVIAN 30 to a personal computer or tablet
- Control Change messages
- Controlling the Styles and Player via MIDI
- MIDI
- File management
- Managing files
- Overview on file management
- Loading musical resources and settings
- Saving musical resources and settings
- Copying files and folders
- Deleting files and folders
- Selecting more items at once
- Formatting storage devices
- Backing up and restoring musical resources
- Connecting the internal drive to a personal computer
- Storage device management
- Exporting playlists
- Care of storage devices
- Managing files
- Appendix
Introduction to MIDI |665
45 MIDI
Introduction to MIDI
Ports, channels, messages
What is MIDI?
MIDI stands for Musical Instruments Digital Interface. This interface lets
you connect two musical instruments, or a computer and various musical
instruments.
From a software point of view, MIDI is a protocol that describes messages for
playing notes and controlling them. It is sort of a grammar to let different
instruments and computers speak the same language, and let the one tell
the other what to do.
From a physical point of view, MIDI messages travel across the USB DEVICE
port, a modern connector replacing the MIDI ports found in older musical
instruments with a single port and cable. HAVIAN 30 can be connected to a
Windows or Mac computer with no need of special software. However, for full
and easy use of all its MIDI features, we suggest that you install the KORG
USB MIDI Driver, a special software that you can find in the Accessory Disc,
or can download from our web site (www.korg.com).
Channels and messages
Basically, a MIDI or USB cable transmits 16 channels of data. Think to each
MIDI channel as a TV channel: the receiver must be set on the same channel
of the transmitter. The same happens with MIDI messages: when you send
a Note On message on channel 1, it will be received on channel 1 only. This
allows for multitimbricity: you can have more than one sound playing on the
same MIDI instrument.