Yamaha EL - 200 Manual Do Utilizador

Appendix

MIDI

On the right underside of the Electone k

eyboard you will find the MIDI IN/

OUT jacks and TO HOST terminal.

MIDI is an acron

ym that stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interf

ace,

which allows electronic musical instruments to communicate with each

other, by sending and recei

ving MIDI messages. If your Electone is

connected with external devices via these MIDI jacks (with a personal

computer via the

TO HOST terminal) and appropriate MIDI settings are

done, you can play an e

xternal MIDI de

vice such as synthesizer from your

Electone keyboard or your Electone can be played by an e

xternal device

such as sequencer (by a personal computer with a sequencing softw

are

installed).

You need MIDI cable(s) when you e

xchange the data between Electone and

an external device. Or you need a serial cable when you connect Electone’

TO HOST to the computer serial port instead of using MIDI cables.

Also, to exchange the data between your Electone and connected MIDI

device you have to match the MIDI transmit/recei

ve channels on both

devices. Receive channels of Electone are f

ixed. Upper Keyboard: channel

1, Lower Keyboard: channel 2, Pedalboard: channel 3

Accordingly, you

need to match the transmit channels on the e

xternal device to the fixed

receive channels of Electone when you w

ant to control Electone by the

external device.

NOTE:

See page 54 for the information on the
MIDI message types.

Setting examples

Using the TO HOST terminal

If you want to connect your Electone with a personal computer, a MIDI

interface will be necessary. However, using a separately available Serial Cable

allows you to directly connect them (between the TO HOST terminal of your

Electone and the Serial Port of the personal computer). In this case you need to

select one of the HOST SELECT switches to match the computer type you use.

No additional MIDI setting is necessary.

NOTE:

MIDI jacks will be inactive when the TO

HOST terminal is currently used.

Windows 95/98

Windows 95(98)

(Computer)

TO
HOST

8-pin MINI DIN to

D-SUB 9-pin Cable

HOST SELECT

EL-200

RS-232C

(DB9)

Mac

PC-1

PC-2

MIDI

Macintosh

(Computer)

TO
HOST

Macintosh Peripheral

Cable (M0197)

HOST SELECT

Mac

PC-1

PC-2

MIDI

EL-200

NOTE:

For Windows users: To actually exchange

the data via the Serial Cable you need to
install the appropriate MIDI driver to your

personal computer in advance. Download

the MIDI driver at the following web site
http://www.yamaha-xg.com/english/xg/

index.html.

NOTE:

Select the HOST SELECT switches as follows:

When you use MIDI connection: MIDI

When you use TO HOST connection with
Windows system: PC-2

When you use TO HOST connection with

Macintosh: Mac

NOTE:

If you use a PC with USB terminal, you

need to use USB interface.