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Hi

I have an M50 connected to a Roland FP3 and I have a couple of questions.

1. Is there a function on the M50 that I can quickly access to suppress all external MIDI input so I can just play notes on the M50 keyboard without my Roland triggering them as well ? I'd like to switch easily between having the Roland control the M50 and having it not control it.

2. Is there a simple way to allow the Roland to control some sounds and the M50 keyboard others without putting the Roland on a different MIDI channel ? The M50 seems to want all locally driven sounds on the global channel which means I think I have to change the MIDI channel that the Roland is sending on if I want to keep the two connected and have the M50 only playing from its local keyboard. What I'm aiming for is the M50 playing some pad sounds in a combi driven by my Roland and also have the flexibility to play some lead sounds only on the M50, not triggered by the Roland.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

its a pity that despite living in the uk ,u can not express ur ideas clearly in english.get a decent training from oxford on how to write in english properly first .ur sentences are cumbersome and make twisted and crooked sense....

The M50 seems to want all locally driven sounds on the global channel which means I think I have to change the MIDI channel that the Roland is sending on if I want to keep the two connected and have the M50 only playing from its local keyboard

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this is an ugly way of framing a sentence!man what is this!
i had a hard time in figuring out what u intended to mean in ur post!!!!

as far as i can reckon
there are some posts in this forum on how to allow master/slave operation of m 50 in conjunction with other midi keyboards using combi mode.just look into it....

rajarshi_sl, I've seen far worse English than that in his post. I can't actually see too much wrong with it.
Also not very polite speaking to a newcomer like that. We need to make sure people feel welcome and are happy to ask their questions here.

Obviously it does always help to be clear and provide as much information as you can.


In answer to (part of, at least) the question posed, you are correct in your conclusion that the M50's internal sounds respond to the global channel.

The global channel specifically is the channel which the M50's built in keyboard transmits on. Most combis will have their timbres set to 'gch' meaning that they respond to whatever the global channel is set to, but you can also set it specifically.

You can use an external keyboard and change it's MIDI channel, but you are right that it won't then control the majority of sounds without you changing every patch to respond to the other keyboard's MIDI channel. If you want to pick and choose which keyboard controls which sounds, then you will need a multi-channel setup.

In short, I don't think there is any short and quick way to get it to behave exactly how you want. You've already shown an understanding of the issues at hand.

Hello MRW,

The best solution for you is to turn each into a comb "supercomb"

Simply create a combination within the invisible own combination using eg MIDI channel 16 for the programs gost, Rolando adjusting for this channel 16.

But the MIDI connection is reversed, m50 <<<<<ROLAND>>>> ROLAND MIDI IN

Then go to the comb desired, press "page select", acess the page "Chord Trigger Setup" and adjust the MIDI channel of each pad for channel 16, so when the pads touch the chords are played on your Roland, and will not have access to programs contained in this comb m50.

I hope I have helped

Áureo Galli - Korg Support Brazil
e-mail - Korg@pridemusic.com.br
web - www.youtube.com/korgmann

Hi

Thanks for the advice on the Korg and my sentence structure. I'll take both on board

I can achieve most of what I want by changing the MIDI send channel on my Roland when I want to run the keyboards separately. If I want to run more interesting splits between them then I'll set up special combos based around a different MIDI channel.

Andy

Ok Andy,

It was a great pleasure to help you.

Áureo Galli - Korg Support Brazil
www.youtube.com/korgmann

i just wanted to pull ur leg mr.w in a humorous manner ,although i was little surprised seeing a englishman writing that way.

i also want to convey to all members of this forum at the same time that it is no harrm or any kind of shame to be weak in english save of course for any englishman for whom english is motherlanguage.

deep down in my heart i know how weak i am in this language!and its no big deal in knowing english(a foreign language in my case) like shakespeare.i know my motherlanguage very well...which is however the biggest deal for me and that is bengali....
the thing that pisses me off is,when i see an arab fumbling in arabic literature...a german failing in german and a briton writing poor english...!!!!
to be more straightforward and precise an eskimo writing poor hindi or an arab struggling wid ancient chineese/mandarin wouldnt have bothered me the way a englishman's english did.

last thing i wd like to say about korg is that every korg user gets easy wid their machine over time and m50 is a wonderful blend of so many wonderful facilities like good piano sound and d_mod and ability to import in m3xpanded patches above all....

rajarshi_sl
You are right dear friend, the language of keyboards transcend the barriers of Language, and to talk to people all over the world, the relatively well goggle translator meets its mission.

Hugs