Jan 14, 2004 10:43 pm I use its big brother the midisport 8x8/s and love it. Ive had it for about 3 years now and not a lick of trouble. Keeps tighter sync and doesnt lock up like my MOTU did.
USB => Midi Interface
Posted on Jan 14, 2004 10:41 pm
olddog
Member Since: Jul 02, 2003
Anybody have any experience with these? I'm thinking of picking one up, something along the lines of this one.
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Jan 14, 2004 10:43 pm I use its big brother the midisport 8x8/s and love it. Ive had it for about 3 years now and not a lick of trouble. Keeps tighter sync and doesnt lock up like my MOTU did.
Jan 14, 2004 11:58 pm Thanks for info Noize. I'd like to get the 4 port one, but it's more than I really want to spend on a midi interface. :)
I have a Boss GT6 that I just picked up a month or so ago and the wife bought me a Yamaha Drum Pro (wait til you hear me as a drummer LOL) and I'm going to pick up a keyboard soon, so I'm already gonna be a port short, so may have to ante up for at least a 4 port, so I don't have be plugin, unplugin all the time. I was just wondering if they worked well. :) Midi here I come.
Dan
Jan 15, 2004 05:50 am I've had mine for about 2 years and never had a problem with it - rock solid like all m-audio gear.
jues.
Jan 15, 2004 05:25 pm OD, to avoid buying the bigger one just run a midi out into the in of the GT6 and then from the GT6 thru port run that to the Yamaha Drum Pro's input then back to the interfaces input. Both those units only require to be running on one midi channel at a time so one port of the interface has 16 channels and your all set. The other port will go to your keyboard.
And the term for what I described is simply daisy chaining. If ya need a little clearer description let me know.
Jan 15, 2004 07:27 pm thats cool to know. the Drum Pro uses (upto) 9 channels though 1 for each pad and the 2 foot pedals (switchs). But I think it would still work cause the GT6 only needs 1. Don't know about the keyboard though how many that would need.
So am I correct it would that still work?
Dan
Jan 17, 2004 02:10 pm Yes indeed it will, and truthfully you done really need to send all nine channels of the drum pro out individually unless you truly need the tracks to be seperate. Which I do do at times when I know I am going to need to mess with the drum sounds individually.
Jan 18, 2004 12:04 pm Mainly I'm thinking just the cymbals would need to be separate cause that's the yucky sounding samples. The other thought was if I sent 9 channels out then I could change the all the samples easily in something like fruity if the mood struck me, and also get a bit quantization on the kick (that gives me problems right now).
Did I mention it's hard to play drums? <G>
Dan
Jan 18, 2004 02:50 pm i have the 2x2.
only used it w/ my drum machine. works great, no problems with it in the 3+ years i've had it. one day i'll have a proper midi controller to really try it out.
but of all the blinking lights and LEDs in my room at night, the constant fading in and out of teh green LED on that Midisport USB 2x2 is the coolest :O)
Jan 19, 2004 07:26 pm OD, indeed sequancing drums is an art form. I program them manually as well as playing the parts individual on the keyboard, but I also have a small trigger kit I use when it has to be quick and with more live feel to it.
Jan 19, 2004 10:40 pm I'm starting a bit late in life to learn drums, but I've always wanted to 2nd to guitar of course. I used to mess around on my buddy's kit way back in the 60's. Right now I'm gonna do basically the same as you, sequence some, play some. Hopefully at some point though, I'll be able to do an entire song "live" with DD-55 :)
Jamie: hehe, that's all I need is another set of blinking led's in my computer room. :) They do look cool though!
Dan
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