RE: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-23 Thread Matt Chester
2009 04:25 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads Sooner or later, I'll be putting my music computer setup back together. It's woefully out of date, and I'll need some sort of midi router to replace my 4 X 4 ISA card (ISA? What's that...). Anyway, one option would

RE: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-22 Thread Odeluga, Ken
...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 4:25 AM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads Sooner or later, I'll be putting my music computer setup back together. It's woefully out of date, and I'll need some sort of midi router to replace my 4 X 4 ISA card (ISA

Re: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-22 Thread Thor Teague
I have my doubts. If it's cheaper to try and you want to save a buck, maybe give it a whirl but just be ready for it to possibly not work. I know that both macs and PC's have only a finite amount of that sort of thing that they can deal with. My opinion would be to go straight to the rack mount

Re: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-22 Thread kuszyn...@gmail.com
Motu makes a great 8x8 USB rack unit I think. I had one, thought might have been 4x4, had led for each io activity level, worked great. On Monday, June 22, 2009, Thor Teague thor.tea...@gmail.com wrote: I have my doubts. If it's cheaper to try and you want to save a buck, maybe give it a

Re: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-22 Thread kent williams
Not really on topic for 313 but since about 1/2 the users on this list are producers of some stripe... Any more, with so much synthesis capability available inside the box, most people don't keep a ton of outboard MIDI gear around. Plus, many modern devices that used to be MIDI only come with

(313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-21 Thread Richard Hester
Sooner or later, I'll be putting my music computer setup back together. It's woefully out of date, and I'll need some sort of midi router to replace my 4 X 4 ISA card (ISA? What's that...). Anyway, one option would be to get an 8X rack mount router with USB interface, though these seem to be a