need technical help

nospin · Post by **nospin** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:49 pm

heres what i want to do.
i want to daisy chain my korg er-1 and my korgx5 and go into my one midi input on my computer, and use both to control different tracks in ableton. (i want to use the er-1 to control my software drum machine, and the x5 just as a keyboard controller for bass or whatever.)
both the x5 and er-1 have midi in, out and thru...
how do i set this up?

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:24 pm

Unless you can set one of those devices to mirror it's output to it's thru connection, I don't think you can do this. The problem is that you need the output (via the MIDI Out) from two devices, but have only one input.

You could get a MIDI patchbay, or even better, a simple 2-port MIDI interface - they're quite cheap these days...

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:58 am

subframe wrote:Unless you can set one of those devices to mirror it's output to it's thru connection, I don't think you can do this. The problem is that you need the output (via the MIDI Out) from two devices, but have only one input.

You could get a MIDI patchbay, or even better, a simple 2-port MIDI interface - they're quite cheap these days...

no script here like doa but he's right
you need either a patchbay or interface

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:09 am

provided both boxes are multitimbral (if they're not, don't bother)

set up your gear so that:
box 1 sends on midi channel x

box 2 sends on midi channel y

plug box 1's midi out into box2's midi in.

and then box 2's midi out to your computer's midi input.

configure ableton to see what it needs to see: the doohickey you want controlled by box 1 is set up to only recieve info on channel x.

and the other thingamajig you configure to only see channel y.

boom.

time to get out them manuals....

nospin · Post by **nospin** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:55 pm

TeReKeTe wrote:provided both boxes are multitimbral (if they're not, don't bother)

do they both have to be multimbral, or just "box 2"

TeReKeTe wrote: configure ableton to see what it needs to see: the doohickey you want controlled by box 1 is set up to only recieve info on channel x.

time to get out them manuals....

this is the part i'm stuck on, do you use ableton? do you know how to set a track to recieve info on only a specific channel?

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:57 pm

I don't think that'll work, TeReKeTe. If you plug one devices Out to the other's In, you would need the second device's Thru to send the first devices MIDI on to the Computer, but then you couldn't be using the second devices Out to send to the computer. Unless you can configure a 'soft Thru' on the second device, you'll only get one device's MIDI.

I would be happy to be wrong, of course

skunk · Post by **skunk** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:29 pm

many times there are settings to mirror the input on the output. if only one instrument is multitimbral you need it to be at the beginning of the daisy chain. non multitimbral instruments output on channel 1 i believe.

its been a while but it think terekete is right

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