Owner`s manual
EXR-46 OR
47
MIDI is short for “Musical Instrument Digital Interface”. The word refers to many things, the most obvious being a connector type that is used by musical instruments and other devices to exchange messages
relating to the act of making music.
Each time you play on the EXR-46 OR’s keyboard or start the
Arranger (or Song), your instrument transmits MIDI data to its
MIDI OUT. If you connect the MIDI OUT socket to the MIDI IN
socket of another instrument, that instrument may play the
same notes as one of the EXR-46 OR’s parts, select sounds, etc.
MIDI is a universal standard, which means that musical data can
be sent to and received by instruments of different types and
manufacturers. Furthermore, MIDI allows you to connect your
EXR-46 OR to a computer or hardware sequencer.
Connect your EXR-46 OR as shown below.
Channels
MIDI can simultaneously transmit and receive messages on 16
channels, so that up to 16 instruments can be controlled. Now-
adays, most instruments –like your EXR-46 OR– are multitim-
bral, which means that they can play several musical parts with
different sounds.
Note: All EXR-46 OR parts are set to receive MIDI messages. If
they do not seem to respond to the messages you send from the
external controller, you should check whether the external con-
troller’s MIDI OUT is connected to the MIDI INput of your
EXR-46 OR.
The EXR-46 OR’s transmit and receive channels of all parts
have been set in keeping with a tacit Roland standard and
are therefore shared by all recent EM, E, G, and RA series
instruments. You cannot change them. They also correspond
to the track assignments of the 16-track Recorder:
MIDI Function parameters
See “Editing parameters (general procedure)” (p. 39) for how to
select and set these Function parameters (they belong to the
“MIDI” family).
Note: With the exception of “Local”, all MIDI parameter settings are
saved as soon as you leave the Function mode.
■
Local
(On/Off, Default setting: On) The Local parameter allows you to
establish or remove the connection between the EXR-46 OR’s
keyboard/Recorder and the internal tone generator.
When set to “ON” (default), playing on the EXR-46 OR’s key-
board or playing back a Recorder song will cause the corre-
sponding notes to sound. If you select “OFF”, the corresponding
MIDI messages are no longer sent to the internal tone genera-
tor – but they are still transmitted to the MIDI OUT or USB port
and hence to external MIDI instruments.
Note: The setting of this parameter is not memorized when you
switch off the EXR-46 OR.
■
MIDI TxRx° (MIDI transmission and reception)
This parameter allows you to specify which EXR-46 OR parts
should transmit and receive MIDI messages:
■
Sync Rx° (MIDI synchronization)
Use this parameter to specify how the EXR-46 OR should be
synchronized (as slave) to an external MIDI sequencer, com-
puter, drum machine, etc.
“Synchronization” is a learned term for the fact that one device
(or function) is set to start and stop at the same time as
another device (or function), and to run at the same tempo
(BPM).
14. MIDI functions
The EXR-46 OR receives data
The EXR-46 OR transmits data
External MIDI instrument/computer
EXR-46 OR
—OR—
(using the supplied USB cable)
EXR-46 OR
Computer
The EXR-46 OR transmits and receives data
(*) If you connect the EXR-46 OR’s USB port to a computer, etc., the
MIDI IN and OUT ports are no longer used. This only works when
the icon is NOT displayed.
1
9
2
10
3
11
4
12
5
13
6
14
7
15
8
16
Accomp 1
Arranger bass
Accomp 2
k
Main
Accomp 3
k
Dual
Accomp 4
Accomp 5
Accomp 6
Arranger drums
k
Split
k
Auto Bass
V-Link
V-Link
Melody Intell. (see p. 27)
(
k
Main*)
(*) If you assign a Drum Kit to the Main part.
Option Meaning
ALL All parts.
KBD Only the Keyboard parts (see “k” in the table above).
STL Only the Arranger parts (AccDrums~Accomp 6).
SNG Only the Song parts (1~16).
OFF None of the EXR-46 OR’s parts transmits/receives
MIDI messages.
Sound source Sound source