User Manual

MONTAGE Owner’s Manual
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Using a Connected Computer
Creating a Song with a computer
By using the MONTAGE with DAW software on a computer
connected to the MONTAGE, you can take advantage of the
following functions and applications.
• MIDI recording and audio recording of your MONTAGE
performance to the DAW software.
• Playing back a song from the DAW software by using the
MONTAGE tone generator.
This section contains an overview on how to use DAW
software on the computer with the MONTAGE after
connecting (page 49).
Recording your performance on the
MONTAGE to computer as MIDI data (no
Arpeggio playback recorded)
In this method, you record your performance on the
MONTAGE to DAW simply as MIDI data. Keep in mind that
Arpeggio playback cannot be recorded.
Setting up the MONTAGE
1 Press the [UTILITY] button to call up the
Utility display.
2 Touch [Settings] tab  [Quick Setup] tab at
the left side of the display to call up the Quick
Setup display.
3 Select “1 (MIDI Rec on DAW)” of “Quick
Setup.”
4 Press the [EXIT] button to select the
Performance you want to record.
Setting up the DAW software
1 Set MIDI Thru to “on” on the DAW software.
By setting MIDI Thru to “on,” the MIDI data generated by
playing the keyboard and transmitted to the computer
will be returned back to the MONTAGE. As shown in the
example below, the MIDI data transmitted from the
MONTAGE then recorded to the computer via MIDI
channel 1 will be returned back from the computer to the
MONTAGE via MIDI channel 3 according to the setting of
the recording Track. As a result, the tone generator of the
MONTAGE will sound the MIDI data generated by
playing the keyboard as MIDI data from channel 3.
2 Record your MONTAGE performance on the
DAW software.
Recording your performance on the
MONTAGE to computer as MIDI data
(with Arpeggio playback recorded)
In this method you can record Arpeggio playback on the
MONTAGE to DAW as MIDI data.
Setting up the MONTAGE
1 Press the [UTILITY] button to call up the
Utility display.
2 Touch [Settings] tab  [Quick Setup] tab at
the left side of the display to call up the Quick
Setup display.
3 Select “2 (Arp Rec on DAW)” of “Quick
Setup.”
4 Press the [EXIT] button to select the
Performance you want to record.
Setting up the DAW software
Follow the same operations in “Recording your performance
on the MONTAGE to computer as MIDI data (no Arpeggio
playback recorded).”
MONTAG E
[USB TO HOST] terminal
Tone generator block
(recognizing data
over MIDI Channel 3)
Keyboard
(output via MIDI
Channel 1)
Local Control = off
Computer
(Cubase, etc.)
MIDI Thru = on
IN
CH1
OUT
CH3