Kenton CS-70M Yamaha - Manual (Page 4)

OTHER INFORMATION
1) At power up, the default for portamento is on. This is so that the CS-70M will behave normally if MIDI is not
used. Once a MIDI portamento message has been received, portamento will be under MIDI control, which
will have to be ON for the front panel portamento slider control to be active.
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT MIDI CONNECTIONS
Any MIDI IN should be connected to a MIDI OUT or a MIDI THRU similarly any MIDI OUT should be connected only
to a MIDI IN and any MIDI THRU should also only be connected to a MIDI IN.
MIDI OUT (if fitted) is the signal from the synthesiser (or drum machine etc.) that is to be sent to another
instrument. MIDI IN is a received signal that contains MIDI information from another synth, and MIDI THRU is an
exact copy of information arriving at the MIDI IN socket. This allows several instruments to be connected together.
If you want to wire your own MIDI cables the following information may be useful.
1) Although a 5 pin connector is used, only two connections plus an
earth connection are required.
2) If you look at the din plug from the wiring side you will see that the pins are numbered. From left to right (or
clockwise) these are 1 - 4 - 2 - 5 - 3.
3) The pins numbered 1 & 3 are not used.
4) The screen (earth) is connected to pin 2 (centre pin)
5) Pin 4 of one plug should be connected to pin 4 of the other
6) Pin 5 of one plug should be connected to pin 5 of the other
7) You should now have a working MIDI lead
8) It is preferable to label one end of the cable MIDI IN & the other end MIDI OUT, to avoid confusion.
WARRANTY
All Kenton MIDI Kits come with a 12 month (from purchase date) back to base warranty, (i.e. customer must
arrange and pay for carriage to and from Kenton Electronics). Note that kits should be fitted as soon as possible
after purchase, as the retrofit kits are in a continuous state of development.
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