Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

MIDIMIDI • MIDI BasicsThis chapter focuses on MIDI communications over standard MIDI cables, using the MIDI inand out connectors on the rear panel of your PODXT Live. If you’re exchanging MIDI with acomputer, you also have the option of installing the Bass PODXT USB Driver software (a freedownload using Line 6 Monkey from www.line6.com/monkey) and have your Bass PODXTLive exchange these same MIDI messages with your computer over a USB cable.MIDI BasicsWhat’s MIDI?MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a communications protocol designed tolet various music-making machines exchange information. It allows one device tocontrol another, and several devices to all be used together in coordination.7• 1In/OutBass PODXT Live has two MIDI connections: IN & OUT. You connect Bass PODXTLive to other MIDI devices by connecting MIDI cables to these connectors. Eachconnection is a one-way street: information flows from the OUT of one device to theIN of another device. To allow information to flow back, you must connect a secondcable, from IN to OUT.MIDI ChannelMIDI allows 16 different channels of information to be transmitted and receivedthrough one MIDI cable. The MIDI channel is independent of, and has nothing to dowith, Bass PODXT Live’s preset channels for storing individual sound programs.You tune Bass PODXT Live in to listen to a particular MIDI channel (like choosing achannel on a TV or a station on a radio), and make sure the device that you want BassPODXT Live to listen to is transmitting on that same MIDI Channel. To set Bass