While the YAMAHA SHS-10 keytar and its bigger brother, the SHS-200, look absolutely stunning (if you're into '80s retro-future design, that is), truth be told they are fundamentally toy keyboards. They do, however, have a MIDI out port. Is that enough to make them usable? What MIDI messages are they able to send besides note on/off ones? In this video, I take a deep dive into just that, showing you every single MIDI control of these keyboards and actually connecting my SHS-200 to my laptop via bluetooth MIDI to control my software synth of choice, Vital, and even some of Ableton Live's parameters.
00:00 Intro
01:10 MIDI Monitoring
02:45 Note On/Off
03:06 Velocity
04:07 Oct -/+
05:18 Pitch Wheel
06:35 CC
11:01 Clock & Start/Stop
15:21 Program Change
17:13 MIDI Channel
18:53 Extra Sections
19:28 SHS-200 Bonus Features
19:55 Temporary VS Toggle
21:30 Outr
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