Sending a MIDI Program Change from the SP88
You can change the program (sound) in an external device from the front panel of your Stage Piano quickly and easily without leaving Play mode:
1. While in Play mode, press the MIDI Prog Chg (MIDI Program Change) button it’s the lower-left editing button. The display will change to the last sent program number (or Ñ if none).
2. Enter the desired new program number (1-128) by using the Up or Down arrow buttons or the digit buttons.
3. When the desired number is showing, press the Enter button. Press Cancel instead if you decide not to send a program change. A MIDI Program Change command will be sent on the current MIDI Transmit Channel. The new program number will persist in the display briefly, then it will revert to the current Internal Voice selection.
The next notes you play will be the newly selected sound in your external module. Depending on the external module’s design, notes that were sounding just before the program change was sent may either be unaffected, cut off, or take on some characteristics of the newly selected sound.
Just as opinions differ on whether 2000 or 2001 is the millennium year, some modules begin numbering their programs at zero while others begin at 1. The former type will switch to a program number thatÕs 1 lower than you specify.
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