When you connect a Yamaha arranger (such as Tyros or Genos) to a PC via USB-MIDI, the keyboard shows up as 2 devices on the PC - something like Digital Workstaion 1 and Digital Workstation 2. The '1' and '2' correspond to the MIDI 'A' and 'B' ports on the keyboard. So, for most PC apps, you usually need to pick Digital Workstation 1 as the MIDI In/Out device.
Given that these Yamaha arrangers do not transmit MIDI from MIDI B via USB-MIDI (they receive MIDI only via USB on MIDI B), can anyone give a practical example of when you need to select Digital Workstation 2 as the MIDI device in a PC app?
Thanks
Roy
Hi Roy,
MIDI
A corresponds to the internal MIDI
Port 1 and MIDI
B corresponds to the internal MIDI
Port 2. Each Port has 16 Receice channels and 16 Transmit channels. USB-MIDI, as you correctly mentioned, can only transmit on Port 1 (but receive on 2 Ports).
The assignment of the Receive and Transmit channels to the internal MIDI
parts is done via the MIDI Setting (also referred to as MIDI Setup).
If a standard MIDI tempate is selected ("All Parts" or "KBD & Style"), the internal
SONG parts are controlled via
Port 1 Receive (= MIDI
A IN or Digital Workstation
1). This is the normal setting for playing MIDI tracks from a DAW or a MIDI player (e.g. vanBasco) on the computer.
The
KEYBOARD and
STYLE parts are DIRECTLY controlled (with the MIDI templates mentioned) via
Port 2 Receive (= MIDI
B IN or Digital Workstation
2). This is only desirable/useful in a few cases, e.g. to play/test voices in Registrations or OTS via note data from the DAW. It is important, however, that you only send pure note data, i.e. no BankSelect/ProgramChange commands and no Effect Controller/SysEx data.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Chris