How can I use Setup Mode on a rack? / I have a rack. In Program Mode, I am looking at one program being displayed but am hearing a different program.I have a rack, and I am having problems recording to all tracks but one.

All of these issue revolve around the use of the Local Keyboard Channel parameter, found on the MIDI Receive page.

Lets talk about Setup Mode first. A Setup is an object which is designed to transmit information – it allows you to use your instrument as a controller. Typically, on a keyboard, this involves allowing the keyboard to transmit on multiple channels using up to eight zones, sending different note and controller information for each zone. This allows you to layer and split various programs across the keyboard.

However, a rack is normally a slave – it simply responds to whatever info is received from your external controller for each channel, plain individual programs. If your external controller has its own Setup mode, or the equivalent, you can make your own Setups on your keyboard controller to do the same thing.

But what if you have a controller that can only send on a single MIDI channel, or want to play the preset Setups in our instrument. You need to have a way to change the information that is coming in on a single MIDI channel into multiple channels of information. This is exactly what the Local Keyboard Channel parameter does. Once you set this parameter to a specific MIDI channel, and then send MIDI information into the rack, that information is turned into different information depending on where you are in the instrument.

For example, lets say that your are in Program Mode and have Channel 5 in the display, but your keyboard is sending on channel 1. If Local Keyboard Channel is set to None, then you will be hearing whatever sound is currently on channel 1, even though you are looking at channel 5. But if you set the Local Keyboard Channel parameter to 1, then the MIDI messages coming from your keyboard on channel 1 is turned into channel 5 MIDI messages and so now you hear the sound you see displayed. You are no longer playing channel 1 – you are playing channel 5.

Now lets say you are in Setup Mode with a Setup that has channels 1, 2, & 3 layered, and a split with channel 4. Then the MIDI messages coming in on channel 1 are turned into either messages on channels 1, 2, & 3, or on channel 4, depending on where you are playing on the keyboard.

This same rechannelizing feature applies in Song Mode, working in the same manner that an Auto Channelize Patch Thru function works in a software sequencer. If you are using Song Mode, and are not using the Local Keyboard Channel, then you must always change the transmit channel on your keyboard to match the channel of the track you want to record on. But if you set the Local Keyboard Channel to a specific channel , and then leave your keyboard on that same channel, as you switch through the tracks, the incoming message are changed to that channel and therefore recorded onto that track.

The Local Keyboard Channel parameter also can be used to turn incoming controller messages into different controller messages . In fact, it affects many things.

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