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You can play the TRITON STUDIO’s keyboard and record 
your performance on an external MIDI sequencer/computer 
(connected via a MIDI interface), and then play back the 
recorded performance to sound the TRITON STUDIO’s tone 
generator (i.e., using the TRITON STUDIO as an input key-
board and MIDI tone generator). To do this, connect the 
MIDI OUT and MIDI IN connectors of the TRITON STUDIO 
and your external MIDI sequencer/computer to each other.

Some USB-MIDI interface devices may not be able to 
transmit/receive the TRITON STUDIO’s MIDI exclu-
sive messages.

When connections are made as shown above, turn on the 
Echo Back function of the external MIDI sequencer or com-
puter (so that data received at MIDI IN will be re-transmit-
ted from MIDI OUT), and turn off the TRITON STUDIO’s 
Local Control

 setting (so that the TRITON STUDIO’s key-

board and tone generator will be internally disconnected). 
When you play the keyboard of the TRITON STUDIO, the 
musical data will be transmitted to the external MIDI 
sequencer or computer, and then echoed back to play the 
TRITON STUDIO’s tone generator. In other words, by turn-
ing Local Control OFF, you can prevent notes from being 
sounded in duplicate, as would otherwise occur if a note 
were sounded by the TRITON STUDIO’s own keyboard and 
again by the data that was echoed-back.

If the arpeggiator function is on, playing the TRITON STU-
DIO’s keyboard will not cause the arpeggiator to operate, 
and only the musical data produced by playing the key-
board will be transmitted. The arpeggiator will operate only 
in response to the notes that are echoed-back and received at 
MIDI IN. In this way, turning off Local Control prevents the 
arpeggiator from operating in duplicate.
Use this setting when you wish to record on the external 
MIDI sequencer or computer only the notes that trigger the 
arpeggiator, and to use the echoed-back notes to operate the 
arpeggiator while monitoring your recording or during 
playback.

If you want the note data produced by the arpeggiator 
to be recorded on the external sequencer/computer, set 
Local Control on, and turn off the Echo Back setting of 
the external sequencer/computer.

To turn off Local Control, press the “Local Control On” 
(Global P1: 1–1a) check box to uncheck it.
When using the TRITON STUDIO by itself, leave Local Con-
trol turned on. (If this is off when the TRITON STUDIO is 
used by itself, playing the keyboard will not produce 
sound.)

■ Messages transmitted and received 

[...] indicates hexadecimal notation

MIDI messages can be exchanged when the transmitting 
and receiving devices are set to the same MIDI channel. 
MIDI uses sixteen channels, numbered 1–16. The way in 
which channels are handled will differ depending on the 
mode.

Program mode and Sampling mode
• Transmission/reception is performed on the global 

MIDI channel*.

* The global MIDI channel is the basic channel that the 

TRITON STUDIO uses for MIDI transmission/reception, 
and is set by “MIDI Channel” (Global P1: 1–1a).

Combination mode
• The global MIDI channel is used to transmit/receive 

messages for selecting a combination and turning effects 
on/off, and to transmit/receive exclusive data.

• Each timbre will transmit/receive MIDI data on the 

“MIDI Channel” (Combination P2: 2–1b) that is specified 
for that timbre.

• The “Ctrl Ch” MIDI channel specified for each effect 

(“Combination P8: 8–3a, P9: 9–2a, 9–4a) is used to 
control dynamic modulation of the insert/master effects, 
the pan following the insert effect, and send 1 and 2.

• When you operate the keyboard or controllers of the 

TRITON STUDIO, messages will be transmitted on the 
global MIDI channel, and will also be transmitted on the 
MIDI channel of any timbre whose “Status” 
(Combination P2: 2–1b) is set to EXT or EX2.

• Channel messages will be received if they match the 

MIDI channel of a timbre whose “Status” is set to INT 
(

☞Combination P2: 2–1b).

Sequencer mode and Song Play mode
• The global MIDI channel is used to transmit/receive 

exclusive data and for messages that switch effects on/
off.

• MIDI data transmission/reception for each track will 

occur on the MIDI channel specified for each track by 
“MIDI Channel” (Sequencer P2: 2–1a/2a).

• The “Ctrl Ch” MIDI channel specified for each effect 

(“Sequencer P8: 8–3a, P9: 9–2a, 9–4a) is used to control 
dynamic modulation of the insert/master effects, the 
pan following the insert effect, and send 1 and 2.

• When you operate the keyboard or controllers of the 

TRITON STUDIO, messages will be transmitted on the 
MIDI channel selected by “Track Select” (Sequencer P0: 
0–1a) However, messages will be transmitted only if the 
track selected by “Track Select” has a “Status” of BTH, 
EXT

, or EX2. (“Track Select” 

 

• When the sequencer is played back, musical data of 

tracks whose “Status” is BTH, EXT, or EX2 will be 
transmitted on the specified MIDI channels.

• Tracks whose “Status” is INT or BTH will receive 

channel messages of the matching MIDI channel 
(

☞“Status,” “MIDI Channel” ☞p.62, 126).

Note-on [9n, kk, vv]
Note-off [8n, kk, vv]
(n: channel, kk: note number, vv: velocity)

When you play a note on the TRITON STUDIO’s keyboard, 
it will transmit note-on/off messages. When the arpeggiator 

computer

MIDI IN

TRITON 
STUDIO

MIDI interface

MIDI IN

MIDI OUT

MIDI OUT