need help with midi hookup

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I know very little about midi soplease bear with me...</P>


My church has a Ahlborn Galanti Chronicler Series Organ up in the choir loft. We have a Roland Digital Piano (HP203) in the sanctuary area up front. I hadtwo midi cables installed between the organ and piano. The hope was to use the sounds on the piano for the organ, especially the percussion and grand piano sounds. </P>


I am able to get the basic piano sound from the hp203 to play on the organ, but no other sound. I am unsure what the organ is asking me regarding the midi hookup.</P>


I push the "midi" button on the remote for the organ and the screen flashes "midi channel" with five numbers underneath that reading, "1 2 4 5". I push enter on the remote and the first number (the number '1') flashes. I can change the number from one to sixteen but no where can I enter the midi number of the sound that I wishto have played on the organ (0-127).</P>


Regarding the piano, I can access the organ through it and play both the piano and organ atthesame time from the piano.This is nice, but my wish isfor the organists toplay the organ and have the sounds built into thepiano play through the organ.</P>


Can anyone help me? Thank you!</P>


Father Alan Wierzba</P>
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[arie v]

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Hi Father Alan,</p>

I know the Ahlborn-Galanti organs fairly well, as I used to sell them.</p>

The Chronicler series organs had a rather primitive MIDI implementation. They do not send patch commands or SYSEX messages. So other than sending keyboard data, expression shoe data and some data from pistons (to operate the AhlbornArchive modules), the MIDI didn't do much. Also the keyboards well not velocity, so the piano could not be played dynamically.</p>

The good news is that the Ahlborn-Galanti organs, if properly equipped with a good sound system and voiced to it's potential could sound very, very good.</p>

The new A-G series organs, have a vastly improved MIDI capability, and can do the GS/GX/GM MIDI stuff, play dyanamcially, and also seamlessly interface to the Hauptwerk PC based virtual organ.</p>

I hope I have enlightened you here, even if I didn't solve your problem.</p>

Arie V
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[jbird604]

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We recently ran across a similar problem. A Rodgers 755 (analog from late80's) and a fairly new Roland FP-7.Ran a cable from the organ's MIDI OUT to the Roland piano's MIDI IN. Turning on the organ's MIDI couplers allows the organist to play the Roland from either manual or the pedals -- so far so good.</P>


But the problem was (and still is) the ONLY patchthat willplay from the organ keysis the Grand Piano sound. Regardless of what sound one selects on the Roland's control panel, playing the keys of the Rodgers gets you piano and nothing else.</P>


There seems to be no way that I can discover to send any program changes from the Rodgers, and the Roland can only interpret the MIDI data from the Rodgers as "piano" and nothing else.</P>


Very puzzling to me. Makes the setup quite useless, as the organist wanted to be able to play orchstrings and other nice GMsounds from the organ. Alas, things don't work the way one needs them to.</P>


John</P>
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