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Kawai CA-X User Manual

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USING MIDI

Using MIDI

Connect the CA piano’s MIDI IN jack and your external MIDI device’s

MIDI OUT jack with a MIDI cable. Please note that the MIDI information

is now being transmitted the opposite of our earlier setup. The CA piano

is now receiving MIDI data from your external MIDI device.

MIDI CHANNEL

The next step is to match your MIDI channels. When receiving MIDI data

on the CA piano with multi-timbral mode ON, it is not necessary to specify

a MIDI channel to use because the CA piano can receive data on multiple

MIDI channels at once. You do have to be careful to match MIDI channels

between each part. A MIDI channel can only have one sound assigned to

it at a time. You must set the MIDI channel for each part on both the

transmitting (external MIDI device) and the receiving (CA piano) MIDI

devices. For example, channel 1 for piano, ch 2 for strings, ch 3 for choir,

etc.

MULTI-TIMBRAL MODE

Multi-timbral On

is a setup for 16-channel multi-timbral operation. You

can mute the channels separately. Each channel recognizes the program

change numbers as listed on page 42. There are two kinds of Multi-timbral

On. On1 and On2 have different program change numbers assigned.

Multi-timbral Off

turns off the multi-timbral capability. If you would

like to have the CA piano receive MIDI data on a single channel and ignore

all data on the other channels set multi-timbral to “Off”. Remember, if

you want the CA piano to receive MIDI information from an external

device, in this setup you must match the receiving channel with the

transmitting channel. Program change numbers are recognized as listed

on page 42.

To demonstrate the multi-timbral capability of the CA piano, let’s choose

Multi-timbral On.

Press the HARPSI&MALLETS button while holding down the

TOUCH and the TRANSPOSE buttons.