Future Retro Revolution Owner Manual - Manual (Page 32)

PLAYING AN EXTERNAL MIDI SOUND MODULE WITH THE REVOLUTION
You can play external MIDI sound modules with the Revolution’s sequencer. This allows you to
take advantage of the Revolution’s real-time editing and remixing of patterns, which other
sequencers might not offer.
For this setup, connect the MIDI OUT of the Revolution to the MIDI IN of the external MIDI sound
module. To set up the MIDI mode of the Revolution, press the Song key (Song key indicator should
be on) to enter Song mode. Press the Accent/MIDI key to enter the MIDI mode. The display will
show whether MIDI is set for INT or EXT. Use the UP/Down keys to select INT, for INTernal
operation. Press the Accent/ MIDI key again and the display will show the MIDI channel the
Revolution will send note information on. Use the Up/Down keys to select the same channel as set
for the external MIDI sound module. Once this is done, press the Accent/MIDI key again and the
display will show the program change page. Use the Up/Down keys to change this setting to PCof if
you don’t want patterns in the Revolution to select Patches remotely in the external MIDI sound
module. If you would like patterns in the Revolution to select different patches in the MIDI sound
module you can turn this feature on, or PCon. Press the Accent/MIDI key once again to exit the MIDI
mode.
Now you will need to set up the MIDI sound module to play the sound you want on the same MIDI
channel that the Revolution is sending note information on. Once this is done, select the pattern or
song in the Revolution and press the Play key. The MIDI sound module should now play the notes
programmed into the Revolution’s sequencer. Notice if you have the MIDI program change message
turned on, and the sound module responds to these messages, selecting different patterns will also
select different sound patches in the sound module.
When accents or glides are programmed in the sequencer, they may have a totally different affect on
the MIDI sound module’s sound depending on how the module is setup to respond to velocity
changes or two keys being played at the same time. When a note in the Revolution is programmed
with an accent, a velocity value 127 is sent for that note. When a glide is programmed into the
Revolution, the sound module will see this as the first note overlapping the second note for a short
period of time.
MIDI SOUND MODULE
MIDI OUT MIDI IN
MIDI MODES
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