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In the rear panel of your PSR-530, there are MIDI terminals (MIDI IN, MIDI OUT), a TO HOST
terminal, and a HOST SELECT switch. By using the MIDI functions you can expand your
musical possibilities. This section explains what MIDI is, and what it can do, as well as how
you can use MIDI on your PSR-530.
MIDI Functions
What’s MIDI?
No doubt you have heard the terms “acoustic instrument” and “digital instrument.”
In the world today, these are the two main categories of instruments. Let’s consider an
acoustic piano and a classical guitar as representative acoustic instruments. They are
easy to understand. With the piano, you strike a key, and a hammer inside hits some
strings and plays a note. With the guitar, you directly pluck a string and the note
sounds. But how does a digital instrument go about playing a note?
As shown in the illustration above, in an electronic instrument the sampling note
(previously recorded note) stored in the tone generator section (electronic circuit) is
played based on information received from the keyboard. So then what is the
information from the keyboard that becomes the basis for note production?
For example, let’s say you play a “C” quarter note using the grand piano sound on
the PSR-530 keyboard. Unlike an acoustic instrument that puts out a resonated note,
the electronic instrument puts out information from the keyboard such as “with what
voice,” “with which key,” “about how strong,” “when was it pressed,” and “when was
it released.” Then each piece of information is changed into a number value and sent
to the tone generator. Using these numbers as a basis, the tone generator plays the
stored sampling note.
● Acoustic guitar note production ● Digital instrument note production
Pluck a string and the body resonates the
sound. Based on playing information from the keyboard, a
sampling note stored in the tone generator is played
through the speakers.
Example of Keyboard Information
Voice number (with what voice) 01 (grand piano)
Note number (with which key) 60 (C3)
Note on (when was it pressed) and Timing expressed numerically (quarter note)
note off (when was it released)
Velocity (about how strong) 120 (strong)
Tone Generator
(Electronic circuit)
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Playing the keyboard
Sampling
Note
Sampling
Note