Kawai CA-X - Manual (Page 41)

37 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.