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Noid
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is this possible?
« on: Apr 29th, 2005, 11:53pm » |
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Hi everyone.
To start off, I'm fairly new to midi.
I'm trying to receive signals from a keyboard conrtoller and a drum controller. Right now this is how I have it (unsuccessfully) hooked up:
Midi out from keyboard to drum controller midi in
Midi out from drum controller to soundcard midi in.
Is there any way to get my computer to realize this as two different instruments (or realize this at all...the keyboard doesn't work so far this way).
I really don't know how the midi out works, and it would be great to avoid having to purchase a multi midi device.
Thanks for any input, you are helping me overcome my newbieness!
Richie
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Peter L Jones
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Re: is this possible?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 30th, 2005, 3:15am » |
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Not really a MIDI-OX question...
It sounds like you don't have "Thru" turned on for the drum controller's MIDI Out port. Check its manual to see how to get it to copy MIDI In to MIDI Out.
You can read up on MIDI here or here.
Briefly, each MIDI message identifies a "channel" to which it applies. The receiving equipment can then use the channel number to decide how to process the message. In a MIDI "host", for example, you might assign each channel to a different MIDI track, each with a different (virtual) instrument -- or even route some channels back out to "real" instruments.
The drum controller will (should) be on Channel 10. Your keyboard probably defaults to Channel 1.
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