Midi Implementation

[patrkcirtap]

I am trying to play the main sounds of my Casio CT-X3000 with a Kawai piano through Midi (through a host device). I have gotten the two keyboards to connect, but I am only able to get General Midi sounds from the Casio. Is there any way to change to the other tones of the keyboard?

 

Thanks in advance

[Brad Saucier]

The PDF appendix for the CT-X3000 has a tone list that gives the bank and program change data needed to call up any of the tones.  You'll need to have a way to send that data to call up those other tones.  I'm not sure what the Kawai is capable of sending.  Can it send custom bank and program change data?

[patrkcirtap]

Hi Brad, it looks like the Kawai cannot send custom bank and program changes. How would you recommend sending these messages to the CT-X3000? 

[Soundioxide]

EDIT:

Ok, it works as mentioned by Brad and written in appendix. What I had to do is to set Bank and Program for particular tone.  

 

Hello there,

 

Recently I tried to play my Casio using my PC and DAW via USB MIDI connection. 

 

What I would like to do is to play specific tone - for example one of the Drum Sets (Tone 782) . What messages should I set to make this happen?

So far I only managed to play some piano sounds and some drum sounds on channel 10.   

 

I am looking at the MIDI implementation document and it looks like I need to somehow make setup for specific MIDI channel in port C (parts 33-48, MIDI receive channel 1-16).

 

Could someone help me out with this issue?

 

 

 

[Eugene Olsen]

It looks like all of the custom drum sets are in Bank 120, so do a Bank Select 120.   Drum Set 782 (Drum Machines Set 1) is Program 25 in Bank 120, so after selecting Bank 120, do a Program Change to Program 25.  A Program is sometimes called a Patch.

 

Use Channel 10 unless you need more than one percussion track.