Studio Cabling/MIDI Chaining

[AudioAssassyn]

Hey, guys. Hopefully this is the right forum, it seemed to fit the question best. I attached a diagram of my setup because I thought that was easier than a textual explanation. Feel free to draw on it if you think that is also easier than a textual answer. I want my peripherals' tempos to sync to my main program (don't worry about sync settings, I know to set them all to MIDI). I was thinking Audio Interface MIDI OUT, to all the periphs' IN. Is that right? Do I also need to send their OUTs back to the interface? And as far as getting my drum and synth to the loop machine, do you think the converter/splitter is the best way? Thanks a mil in advance.

Well, nevermind about the image. Won't let me post until I have more than 5 posts (which I do, so I dunno', whatever). Basically, how do I sync multiple periphs. I guess if you wanna' take a gander at the diagram let me know and I can PM it. Would really make this easier. Guess the link thing is a necessary measure to take against people signing up to spam their bands pages. Maybe this will work below: remove spaces after the dots.

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[diggy_dude]

What you're doing with the box in that diagram - sending the outputs of two machines to the input of one machine - would require a mixer, not a splitter. But that's not what you want to do.

(1) Connect the drum machine's audio outputs to the looper's audio inputs using two RCA-to-1/4" TS cables.
(2) Connect the looper's audio outputs to the line inputs on the audio interface using two more of the same cables.
(3) Connect the synth's audio outputs to the mic/inst inputs on the audio interface using two 1/4" TS cables.

What you do next depends on whether all three devices will send and receive MIDI over USB. If so, simply connect them to USB ports on the computer. Download the free MIDI-OX program (for Windows) for routing MIDI signals. Or find a similar program for the Mac if you have a Mac.

If all of the units don't send MIDI over USB, get a USB MIDI box such as the MidiSport 4x4 and use MIDI-OX or similar in the same way as above.

 

[AudioAssassyn]

Yeah, they all can receive USB. So that would be better than a MIDI chain? Also, is MIDI-OX necessary if the program I'm using has a tempo selector, and the audio interface has the option to use that programs tempo (and thus send it to the periphs)?

I have everything working and recordable, I just currently have to manually adjust tempos on each periph (for arps and loops and such), and I'd like for them to all just sync to Reason/Record, and I'm sure there is a way to do it, I just don't know. You say all USB?