Midi Cascading

[Stone B]

Anyone know how to do it?

[Badger]

Originally posted by Stone B
Anyone know how to do it?

What do you mean by cascading?

[Stone B]

It's been awhile since I've dealt much with midi, but I think it's a way of connecting multiple instruments to one controller.

[knightfly]

That technique is called Layering if done on a single keyboard. I guess cascading would be as good a name for doing it with several keyboards/modules. All you would need to do is to set each slave unit to the same midi channel as the controller, and possibly transpose some of them up or down to get the effect you wanted. If you were going to do that with more than 2 or 3 slaves, you should probably use a MIDI patch bay and feed each unit from a separate output. This would avoid any latency due to the delays caused by daisy-chaining devices. Of course, then the audio out of each device would need to be fed to a mixer , unless you intended to record each one to its own channel and had an interface capable of multiple channels... Steve

[Stone B]

IIIIII dunno, it sounds pretty complicated, would using the Digi001 and PTLE make it any easier?

[TexRoadkill]

dude, what is it that you want to do?

[Stone B]

I have 3 keyboards and 2 sound modules, and I want to use my ASR 10 as the controller for all the other instruments (Using channels 9-16) and program from a seperate sequencer.

currently I can only figure out how to hook up three of my instruments. like I said, it's been a while since I dealt much with midi, I'm sure there's a way to do it though. My sister said she used to know how.

[TexRoadkill]

Controller IN/OUT to comp IN/OUT use the THRU to IN to daisy chain all the other devices. You must use the THRU ports to send to the next one. If they only have an OUT you need to use that device last or get another midi interface.

[Stone B]

Soooo it's called daisy chaining, thanks, all of them have INs. I'm about to do it now.

[TexRoadkill]

Make sure they all have THRU's. That is what screws up most people.

IN's take any midi data
OUT only sends data originating on that device
THRU only sends data that originated at that machines IN

Some devices let you merge the THRU and OUT data.

[Stone B]

Hey! It worked!
They all have THRUs

Thanks alot