Bad_Mister - 30 August 2012 09:10 AM

When you place the MOX in MASTER mode and you activate the ZONE SWITCH, you can then setup the MOX to transmit on as many as four separate MIDI Channels simultaneously. Master mode is the only mode where the KEYBOARD of the MOX can transmit on multiple MIDI channels simultaneously. How many sounds that triggers internally will depend on which MODE is selected for the internal tone generator:
If VOICE mode = you can play 1 VOICE
If PERFORMANCE mode = you can play 1 PERFORMANCE
If SONG or PATTERN mode = you can play 4 MIDI Channels (how many sounds that is depends on your MIDI channel assignments within the MIXING setup..

Hello all, First post but I have been lurking around this forum for a while now. Thanks to all of you for the valuable information. Now I just recently purchased a brand new Yamaha CP 300. I also purchased a used Motif Classic Rack, specifically for Power Grand :), to use along with the CP 300. I’ve taken a quote from (Mr. Phil) Bad Mister because what he describes is exactly what I would like to do with my setup. I have read through both manuals for each device but I am at a loss. What I am trying to do is the following. I have setup a Performance in the Motif rack with 4 different voices. I have the CP 300 set to Master mode with each of the 4 zones set to midi channels 1-4. So Zone 1 is set to midi ch1 Zone 2 to midi ch 2 and so on. If I move any of the Zone sliders from the keyboard I can see that the Motif rack is receiving the signal. Even the volume faders on the Motif rack (Performance Edit page) will move. However I only hear sound from the first Voice in the Performance. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Yes. When you are in VOICE mode or PERFORMANCE mode you are receiving on a single MIDI channel on the Motif-Rack. If you are transmitting on four MIDI channels from the CP300, then you want to setup to receive data in the Motif-Rack on four corresponding MIDI channels so that
CP300 Ch 1 transmits to PART 1 Motif-Rack Ch 1
CP300 Ch 2 transmits to PART 2 Motif-Rack Ch 2
CP300 Ch 3 transmits to PART 3 Motif-Rack Ch 3
CP300 Ch 4 transmits to PART 4 Motif-Rack Ch 4

the mode on the Motif Rack that allows you to receive on four (actually 16) separate MIDI channels is called MULTI mode.

So place the four Voices you want to play in the first four PARTS of a Motif-Rack MULTI and make sure that PART 1 = Ch 1, PART 2 = Ch 2, PART 3 = Ch 3 and so on.

Make sense?

Thank you Bad Mister for your reply. I have setup both the Motif Rack and CP 300 in the way that you have explained. However I am still unable to hear each of the sounds that I set up in the performance. I can however see that the motif rack is receiving on each of the four zones of the CP 300. Are the Parts in each Multi automatically assigned to its respective midi channel? And if not how can each parts midi channel be changed?

Did you find the answer to your question?

You can set the MIDI Channel of each PART in a Multi, as you require. Please see the section in the Manual for MULTI > edit

Thank you Bad Mister, I did find the section in both the CP 300 and Motif Rack manuals about multi edits and the Master Mode. I have now assigned the first four parts to midi channels 1-4 respectively and the Motif Rack’s basic receive channel is set to Omni. I have control over each part e.g. I can move each Zone fader for the CP 300 and it affects the volume for each part of the Motif Rack however I only hear sound from the first part (midi channel 1). I feel that I’m missing something so simple.

The Motif-Rack’s Basic Receive Channel should be set to 1, not Omni. This has nothing to do with your setup up because when you are in MULTI mode each PART is set individually to receive on a MIDI channel. The “Basic Receive Channel” is to address the entire Motif-Rack, as in when you want to send a message to change the Multi from 001 to 002.

If you are only hearing one sound, you have to make sure your Zones are active in the CP300.
Review the parameters for each Zone.