Yamaha Clavinova PF P-100 Owner's Manual - System Applications

SYSTEM APPLICATIONS

Using the P-100 with a tone generator

You can use the P-100’s keyboard and MIDI control functions to control tone generators such as Yamaha’s TG77.

To do so, connect the P-100’s MIDI OUT terminal of the P-100 to the MIDI IN terminal of the tone generator as

shown below. When two instruments are linked in this manner, the controlling and controlled instruments are referred

to as the master and slave devices, respectively.

When using the P-100 to control a single voice of a slave tone generator, set the P-100’s transmit channel and the

slave’s receive channel to the same channel number. Any notes you play on the P-100’s keyboard in Single or Dual

modes will be transmitted to the slave using this channel, together with any messages produced by operation of the

[PITCH] and [MODULATION] wheels and the foot pedals. If you assign MIDI control functions to the P-100’s [CS]

slider and the foot controller, these controls will also send messages on the channel you select.

If your slave is a multitimbral tone generator, as the TG77 is when you switch it to Multi mode, you may want to play

two of the voices using the P-100 in Split mode. Assign the receive channel for one of the tone generator’s voices to

the P-100’s transmit channel (Tch), and that for another of its voices to the next higher channel (Tch+l). Thereafter the

tone generator will respond to notes you play in the main keyboard area using the first voice, and notes you play in the

sub keyboard area using the second voice.

The P-100 will send program change messages on either of these channels each time you press one of the

[VOICE/UTILITY] buttons to select a new main or sub voice. The P-100 is thus able to select up to ten of the slave’s

voices or multiple-voice selections (such as the TG77’s multis), depending on your program change transmit table

settings. (Note that the way the slave responds to these messages can also depend on its own settings. The TG77, for

example, can be set to respond to program change messages in a number of different ways.)

If you need to amplify your tone generator’s output, you can do so by connecting its output jacks to the P-100’s LINE

IN jacks. If you try this, remember that the P-100’s reverb, modulation, and equalization effects will not affect the

sound output by the tone generator.

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