User Manual
Table Of Contents
- PRECAUTIONS
- Introduction
- Accessories
- About the Manuals
- Main Features
- Contents
- Controls and Functions
- Setting Up
- Basic Operation and Displays
- Quick Guide
- Playing the Voices
- Changing the tonal qualities of the Voice with the controllers
- Using the Arpeggio function
- Keyboard Octave/ Transpose settings
- Storing the edited settings
- Playing the Performances
- Playing back Rhythm Patterns
- Playing the keyboard along with Songs
- Creating an original Performance
- Changing Voices smoothly while performing
- Making Global System Settings (Utility settings)
- Saving/loading files on USB flash memory (File settings)
- Connecting an external MIDI instrument
- Appendix
MX49 MX61 MX88 Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide
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Controlling an external MIDI
keyboard or synthesizer from the
instrument
This connection lets you sound an external MIDI tone
generator (synthesizer, tone generator module, etc.) by
playing the instrument or playing back a Song or Pattern
of the instrument. Use this connection when you wish to
sound the other instrument along with the instrument.
HINT
MIDI Transmit and Receive channels –
Changing the Performances remotely
The MIDI Receive channels for Parts 1 – 16 of the
instrument are fixed to 1 – 16. Make sure to match
the MIDI Transmit channels of the external MIDI
instrument with the MIDI Receive channels of the
instrument. For details on setting the MIDI Transmit
channels of the external MIDI instrument, refer to the
owner’s manual of that instrument.
You can also use an external MIDI instrument to
change this instrument’s Performances with the
proper program change messages. To do this, you’ll
need to match the MIDI Transmit channel of the
external MIDI instrument with the basic MIDI
Receive channel of the instrument. For details on
setting the basic MIDI Receive channel of the
instrument, follow the instructions below.
1 Press [UTILITY].
2 Use the Cursor [u]/[d] buttons to select
“02:MIDI,” then press [ENTER].
3 Use the Cursor [u]/[d] buttons to select
“BasicCh (Basic Channel),” then check
the channel.
If necessary, change the channel to the same
channel as the MIDI transmit channel of the
external MIDI instrument.
MIDI IN
MIDI [OUT]
External MIDI tone generator (for example, MOTIF-RACK XS)
MX49, MX61, or MX88
HINT
MIDI Transmit and Receive Channels –
Sounding only an external tone generator
The MIDI Receive channels for Parts 1 – 16 of the
instrument are fixed to 1 – 16. Make sure to match
the MIDI Receive channels of the external MIDI
instrument with the MIDI Transmit channels of the
instrument. For details on setting the MIDI Transmit
channels of the external MIDI instrument, refer to the
owner’s manual of that instrument.
You can also control an external tone generator from
the instrument and have only that device sound. To
do this, set the [MASTER VOLUME] knob to “0” or
set the Local Control to “off” with the following
operation: [UTILITY] Select “02:MIDI” [ENTER]
“LocalCtrl” = “off.”