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(Message started by: sammy on Mar 20^th, 2005, 10:07am)

Title: Please help....need help with midi connections
Post by sammy on Mar 20^th, 2005, 10:07am

this is the scoop....i have two keyboards and one sound tone generator(only one in/out on the unit>Yamaha MU15).......i want to connect both keyboards to the module.....i have on both key boards in/out midi........i use one keyboard most of the time....but want the effects i get from the tone generator to be avail to my other keyboard also...
.......i thought i had it figured out.......
..find a "y adapater midi cable".....none i could find....that to me is the solution....help me out....so what do i do....

Title: Re: Please help....need help with midi connections
Post by Peter L Jones on Mar 20^th, 2005, 2:13pm

MIDI OX is a piece of software for the PC. Do you have a PC in your set up?

Why can't you just daisy chain the keyboards?

Title: Re: Please help....need help with midi connections
Post by sammy on Mar 21^st, 2005, 6:26am

i dont have one yet....but soon........need to get a laptop.....but seeing you folks are pros and know your stuff.....thought best to ask the question.......................the tone generator only has one in/out midi....but off topic....is there any such beast as a Y adapter for midi....in other words.....two female and one male.....?

Title: Re: Please help....need help with midi connections
Post by Peter L Jones on Mar 21^st, 2005, 8:24am

MIDI is designed for daisy chaining devices.

Keyboard 1 MIDI Out -> Keyboard 2 MIDI In
Keyboard 2 MIDI Out -> Sound Module MIDI In

You only need the one out on each keyboard and one in on the sound module. But you may need to tell Keyboard 2 to copy from MIDI In to MIDI Out.

Each MIDI "daisy chain" supports up to sixteen MIDI Channels. You should set different channel numbers on each keyboard. If the sound module is "multitimbral", you should then be able to select different sounds for each channel and play, say, harp on one keyboard with soprano voice on the other.

In general, no, you don't get MIDI Y connectors. That's not how MIDI is designed to work. The problem is two devices mustn't be talking at the same time or their messages would get confused. Imagine two people trying to type into the same text document - it would be very confusing and probably impossible to understand! (Nevermind the fighting over squashing each other's fingers!) You can get "MIDI Merge" boxes that read multiple MIDI In ports and write the merged message stream to MIDI Out - but these will need some form of power supply as they're doing processing of the message stream.

Title: Re: Please help....need help with midi connections
Post by sammy on Mar 21^st, 2005, 12:19pm

thank you.....I thought by talking to pros....i would get the right answer...........thanks............it is appreciated.........regards....Sam