RE: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-23 Thread Matt Chester
I think you'd be likely to get all kinds of conflicts and interrupt errors if you started trying to run midi through more than a couple of those. I'd recommend getting an old Midex 8 or AMT8 off ebay, they work great. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan00/articles/emagicamt8.htm http://www.soun

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 USB

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 wrote: > 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 rea

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 i

RE: (313) MIDI Routing Question for Gear Heads

2009-06-21 Thread Odeluga, Ken
I'm no expert, but I remember when I tried some while back to use more than one interface at the same time, I had serious issues, primarily timing and conflicts which meant signals at times weren't going through and parts of the set-up didn't work. But then, that was a few years ago and no doub