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Connecting your device to your PC or other devices using a USB cable
Connecting your device to your PC or other devices using a USB cable
Controlling Pocket Miku with the specialized application
Using the specialized Pocket Miku application allows you to produce the sounds of a variety of characters and lyrics that
are not available via the buttons on the main unit. The specialized application is a web application that uses HTML5. This
application is available on our website. It may be used from any PC, smart phone, or tablet with a supporting browser.
What can you do with the specialized application?
• Replace the originally assigned “a,” “i,” “u,” “e” and “o” character sounds with sounds of your choice
• Replace the originally assigned preset lyrics with lyrics of your choice
• Display the next sound that will be produced on your computer’s monitor
• Select character sounds that are not assigned to the buttons on your Pocket Miku in real time, as you command the
pitch with the carbon keyboard
* The button combinations [VIBRATO] + [A, I, U, E or O] are assigned with the same lyrics as the combinations [SHIFT] + [A, I, U,
E, or O]. When adding lyrics using an external application, these button combinations will be used as empty banks to store
the new lyrics.
* Each bank allows you to input up to 64 character sounds.
What is MIDI?
Pocket Miku is able to send and receive data in MIDI format. MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is used
to transmit performance data digitally between electronic instruments and computers. Software standards
are based on the requirements of hardware such as MIDI interfaces and the data format they transmit and
receive. Since Pocket Miku is not equipped with a MIDI port, a USB port is used to transmit and receive MIDI
data.
What is a MIDI sequencer?
MIDI sequencers are application software or specialized hardware that creates MIDI data that can be played
back with external MIDI sound generators or plug-in software sound generators. This data is created by
inputting performance data (pitch, note timing, note length, playing method, timbre, etc.) using numbers,
musical scores, grids, or other such visual displays.
Note data that you can send from Pocket Miku to a MIDI sequencer
MIDI note data is transmitted from Pocket Miku’s carbon keyboard via the USB port. However, because there
is both a chromatic keyboard portion and a portamento ribbon portion, the note number of the transmitted
note data is fixed at F#4 (or, when an octave shift has been applied: -1=F#3, +1=F#5). Using its own data
format, the device adds pitch bend data depending on the position of your stylus on the carbon keyboard.
* The pitch bend sensitivity on Pocket Miku is 16. Data to restore the pitch bend to zero is transmitted 0.2 seconds after
releasing the note.
Computer
Intermediate users: Controlling Pocket Miku using external devices
Playing Pocket Miku using a MIDI sequencer
When playing Pocket Miku’s eVocaloid component via MIDI
sequencer software, MIDI channel 1 is used to create performance
data. “NSX-39” will be recognized without having to install a
special driver for your MIDI sequencer software.
* Setting both the MIDI input and output of the sequencer to “NSX-39”
at the same time will cause your MIDI data to loop, and Pocket Miku’s
sound may become disordered. In addition, setting the MIDI input of
any component other than Pocket Miku (MIDI channel 1) to “NSX-39”
will cause pitch bend information to be applied to this component,
resulting in their pitches sounding abnormal.
Embedding Pocket Miku lyrics into MIDI data
Using the Pocket Miku-dedicated System Exclusive, it is possible to use MIDI sequencers to embed Pocket Miku lyrics
into MIDI data. For details, please refer to the website or the character tables on the back of this guide. (See page 16.)
Playback of MIDI data without embedded lyrical data, or when playing an ex-
ternal MIDI keyboard
Just before playing back MIDI data, it is possible to select character sounds and lyrics with the main Pocket Miku unit
so that these sounds and lyrics are played during playback. It is also possible to select other character sounds and
lyrics in the middle of playback.
* When the device has just been powered on, or when “Do re mi” mode is selected, the following character sounds will be produced.
Just after start up (when no character sounds or lyrics are selected): “n” (the data in the buffer for external lyrics will be retrieved.)
When character sounds “a,” “i,” “u,” “e,” “o,” or lyrics are selected: the selected character or lyric
When “Do re mi” mode is selected: the character sounds or lyrics selected just before entering “Do re mi” mode
When NSX-1 compatibility mode is selected: the character sounds registered on the chip in the main unit will sound in order
Example: MIDI channel settings on Steinburg Cubase’s
“Inspector Panel”
* Although it is possible to connect the device to smart phones and tablets that are equipped with a type A USB port, the
ability to exchange MIDI data depends on the type of device and the device’s OS.
* It is possible to send and receive data through the USB cable even when the power switch is set to the [BATTERY] position.
* It is not possible to exchange digital audio data via the USB connection.
Connect the Micro-B type connector end of
the USB cable (the end you would plug into
a smart phone) into the USB port on the top
edge of the device. Connect the other end,
the A type connector, into your computer.
For a more detailed user guide, please refer to http://otonanokagaku.net/nsx39/
For a more detailed user guide, please refer to http://otonanokagaku.net/nsx39/
