Sending a pattern to two chosen Midi channels?

[tupinamba]

Hi everybody,

 

I'd like a specific single pattern to be sent to two separate midi channels, for example OUT 1, channels 1 and 2. 

The idea behind this is to play the same part with two of my MB6582 SID engines to get a fatter and slightly chorused sound...

Is this possible?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Hawkeye]

Hola,

as far as I know, this is not (yet) possible - you could copy the track and assign two different MIDI channels, but of course this is not the same (especially if you perform live changes).

 

(The question has been asked a few months ago and TK. answered it in a similar way... I was also searching for a solution for this problem to "layer" synths, and at first thought, the internal SEQ loopback busses might be used to do the trick, but it does not seem to work).

 

What  should work -imho- if you have a fully extended SEQ V4 or a few MIDI ports to spare: you could send out e.g. via MIDI OUT 1 CHN 1,  connect your synth(s) and MIDI THRU to (for example) MIDI IN 1. Then you set up one or more MIDI router(s) and "forward" the signal (from MIDI IN 1, CHN1) to other OUTs or different channels on OUT1 (e.g. MIDI OUT 1,CHN2 - this avoids endless loops). But this solution comes at the cost of latency and MIDI ports :smile:.

 

(Addendum - if your synths don´t have MIDI thru, you could connect MIDIOUT 1 to MIDIIN 1 on the SEQ V4, then set up a few routers to "distribute" to different channels or output ports, this might be the cleanest (and lowest latency) solution at the cost of one OUT and one IN port, fortunately the SEQV4 has up to four).

 

Many greets!

Peter

Edited September 4, 2013 by Hawkeye

[tupinamba]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I'm pretty tight on MIDI ports... I think I'll just duplicate a track for the moment and wait for what the future might give us... ;-)

 

Cheers!