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MIDI applications Messages transmitted and received by the OASYS
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Exclusive Program Write Request or Combination
Write Request message, in addition to the usual
method of using the OASYS’s switches. For more
information, see “Loading & saving data, and
creating CDs” on page 163 of the Operation Guide.
• It is not necessary to write a song, but it will not be
backed up when the power is turned off. If you
want to keep the song data, you must save it to the
internal hard disk or other media before powering
off. “Saving to disks, CDs, and USB media” on
page 168 of the Operation Guide.
Editing sounds via SysEx
By using various MIDI System Exclusive data dumps,
you can rewrite all programs or an individual
program. By using parameter change messages, you
can edit individual parameters as follows.
Parameter changes
• In Program mode, all parameters other than the
program name can be edited.
• In Combination mode, parameters other than the
combination name can be edited.
• In Sequencer mode, you can edit the track
parameters in P0, 1, and 2, and the P7: KARMA, P8:
Insert Effect, and P9: Master/Total Effect
parameters.
Drum kit parameter change/Wave sequence
parameter change
In Global mode, you can edit drum kits and wave
sequences.
Since the other global parameters or Sequencer mode
musical data cannot be edited, you will use data
dumps to transfer this data.
Data dumping of Sampling mode data is not
supported.
The global MIDI channel is used to transmit and
receive this data.
First check the “Enable Exclusive” (Global 1–1c) setting
to enable transmission and reception of exclusive data.
When you switch modes on the OASYS, a mode
change will be transmitted. When you edit individual
parameters, parameter change messages will be
transmitted.
When these messages are received, the same editing
operation will be performed as on the transmitted
device.
If notes are “stuck”
If for some reason, notes become “stuck” and will not
stop sounding, you can usually stop the sound by
changing the mode. If notes played via MIDI are stuck,
you can disconnect the MIDI cable.
MIDI transmits a message called Active Sensing [FE] at
regular intervals. A device that receives this message
will be aware that an external MIDI device is
transmitting to it. Subsequently, if no MIDI messages
are received for a certain interval of time, the receiving
device will decide that the connection has been broken,
and will turn off any notes that had been sounded via
MIDI and reset its controller values.
Playing the OASYS multi-timbrally from
an external device
The OASYS can be connected to an external device and
played multi-timbrally in the following ways.
• MIDI messages from the external device can play a
combination (16-part multi-timbral performance).
You can change the overall settings (programs,
levels, and effects) by using program change
messages to switch combinations.
• MIDI messages from the external device can be
used to play a song (16-part multi-timbral
performance). Overall settings (programs, levels,
effects etc.) can be changed by using a Song Select
message to switch songs. (Song Select messages can
be received if “MIDI Clock”: Global 1–1a is set to
External MIDI.)
• MIDI Clock messages from the external device can
be used to make the OASYS playback a song (set
“MIDI Clock” to External MIDI, and run the
OASYS’s sequencer). (“Synchronizing the playback
of the KARMA function or sequencer”) You can
change the overall settings (programs, levels,
effects) by using song select messages to switch
songs.
Synchronizing the playback of the
KARMA function or sequencer
The choice of whether the OASYS will be the master
(the controlling device) or the slave (the controlled
device) is made by MIDI Clock (Global 1–1a).
Note: When MIDI Clock is set to Auto, the OASYS will
normally operate in the same way as for the Internal
setting. When an external MIDI clock is received from
the MIDI IN connector, the OASYS will automatically
operate as for the External MIDI setting.
Using the OASYS as master and the external MIDI
device as slave
Connect the OASYS’s MIDI OUT connector to the
MIDI IN connector of the external MIDI device.
• When you set “MIDI Clock” to Internal, the OASYS
will be the master device, and will transmit MIDI
timing clock messages.
KARMA function: The tempo can be controlled
from the OASYS. At the same time, the performance
generated by the KARMA function will be
transmitted via MIDI. (In Combination, and
Sequencer modes, data will be transmitted by
timbres/MIDI tracks whose Status is BTH, EXT, or
EX2.) An external tone generator connected to MIDI
OUT will sound, and the tempo of an external
sequencer can be controlled.
Sequencer: The musical data can be played back
and controlled on the OASYS.
Simultaneously, the sequencer playback will be
transmitted via MIDI from MIDI tracks whose