Roland VP-550 业主指南

What’s MIDI?
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a world-wide standard for transferring performance
data and other musical information between electronic musical instruments and computer. By us-
ing MIDI cables to connect devices that are equipped with a MIDI connector, you can use a single
MIDI keyboard to play multiple instruments, create ensembles using multiple MIDI instruments,
automatically switch settings as a song progresses, and do much more.

Connecting a synthesizer via MIDI

Here’s how you can use the VP-550’s keyboard to play an external MIDI-connected synthesizer, for example

to layer a piano with the VP-550’s vocal sounds.

Make connections as shown above.

Set the “MIDI receive channel” of your external synthesizer to 1, and
select a piano sound.

The performance data of the Vocal Designer part (MIDI channel 1) will play your external synthesizer.

The VP-550’s MIDI transmit/receive channels

Part

MIDI transmit channel (fi xed)

MIDI receive channel (fi xed)

Vocal designer

CH1

Ensemble

CH2

Bass & Percussion

CH3

Play the VP-550’s keyboard.

You’ll hear the piano sound from your synthesizer together with the sound of the VP-550.

Alternatively, you can connect your external MIDI keyboard’s [MIDI OUT] connector to the VP-550’s
[MIDI IN] connector, and use your external MIDI keyboard to play the VP-550.

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Connecting the VP-550 with MIDI equipment

MIDI IN

OUTPUT

External synthesizer

INPUT

Monitor speaker

(with built-in amp)