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17.6 MIDI
Under this menu item, you will find the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) implementation of
the G5 to configure the associated connections on the back of the unit. Furthermore, MIDI notes
sent from each pad can be individually adjusted for MIDI outputs.
For users without MIDI experience: Note that MIDI is about control data and not about sound gen-
eration itself. All information sent via MIDI connections is for the purpose of controlling other devices
by communicating in a common language so that other devices can interpret information received
via the MIDI input. In this way, other devices can be accessed to use internal functions and sounds.
Thus, sound generation ultimately takes place in a connected but remote device. The relationship of
MIDI devices within a MIDI network can be ambivalent: all can act as server and client at the same
time. You can best compare the function of MIDI in the digital music world with the role of sheet
music in the traditional way of thinking. Sheet music contains all the important information about a
piece in order to reproduce it recognisably, anywhere, with any group of musicians and any instru-
ment (tempo, tone, instruments, arrangement, etc.). The only condition is that the group of musi-
cians must be familiar with reading music. By just looking at it, no sheet of music makes music on its
own; it takes instruments and musicians to create a sound and interpret the melodies and rhythms
written down. And as in the digital world, the composer, conductor and musician can all take on
roles simultaneously. In the analogy above, the author is the composer, notes are the medium and
the musician's eye is the receiver. This chain of communication has its digital counterpart in electron-
ic music: MIDI. Since digital devices do not have organs such as eyes and brains, nor do they have
limbs to produce sound, a more appropriate way of communicating is needed that takes into
account the way digital hardware works and exchanges the same quality of information as a sheet
of music. An orchestra of connected MIDI talking devices will not produce a single note from their
sound generators if you hand them a written piece of sheet music. Nor would they know when to
change instruments, even if it is notated on that piece of paper. This is the job of the MIDI protocol.
The following MIDI out/inputs are available to you:
G5 Anschlüsse MIDI
MIDI out
MIDI in
USB-MIDI (Bi-directional connection in&out)
BLE-MIDI