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®ÂØÒÅˆÎ MC-909 Getting Started Guide

This all feels a lot like recording audio, since you hit the REC

(for “RECORD”) button, play something, and when you hit PLAY,

the MC-909 plays back your performance. But what you’re

really recording is MIDI messages, not the notes themselves.

What you’re doing is called “sequencing,” and what you’re

recording is called a “sequence.” Each sequence lives inside

one of the MC-909’s “patterns,” as you’ll see in a few pages.

Sequencing lets you do some things that you can’t do so easily with audio recordings:

• You can change the speed, or tempo, of a performance even after it’s been sequenced .

• You can change the sound the performance plays. For example, you can easily change a piano

performance into a string performance without re-performing it.

• You can do all sorts of stuff to sequenced MIDI data. You can change its pitch, change its timing,

add or remove notes and lots of other things.

Oh, and one more thing. On the MC-909, you can record separate performances for up to 16

different instruments in a single sequence. Each of these performances is called a “part.”

1. Bass

2. Synth 1

3. Guitarish

4. Main Keys

5. Organ

6. Clavinet

7. Tambourine

8. Claps

9. Lead Vocal Patch

10. Main Drum Kit

11. Background Vocal Patch 1

12. Background Vocal Patch 2

13. Lead Vocal Patch 2

14. Hits

15. Percussion

16. Bells

A Sequence

Since all of the parts play back together, they sound like they were all recorded at the same time,

even though you may have actually built your arrangement one instrument at a time.

Outside the Box

MIDI also allows completely separate MIDI instruments to communicate. You might, for example,

connect a MIDI keyboard to the MC-909 so you can play its sounds from the keyboard instead of

from the MC-909’s own pads. You can even sequence on the MC-909 by performing the desired

parts on an external MIDI device.

When you connect two MIDI instruments, you

do so using MIDI cables. You connect one end

of a MIDI cable to the MIDI OUT jack of the first

instrument and the other end to the MIDI IN jack

of the second instrument. For a two-way MIDI

conversation—something you need in certain

situations—another MIDI cable connects the

second instrument’s MIDI OUT to the first one’s

MIDI IN. These cables carry MIDI messages, not

audio, of course—all they care about is the

instructions from one box to another.

The MC-909's rear-panel

MIDI jacks

MIDI plug from the side and straight-on

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