![]() ![]() ![]() I'm thinking maybe I don't need a patch bay and can just run the outs of every sequencer to a merge box and just turn off tracks on the sequencers I'm not using, but maybe there are drawbacks of this I'm not thinking of and it would be better to have more control. I don't want something complicated to mess with, just want to be able to have everything hooked up and select which sequencer I want to run what synth. I just want to connect a couple different sequencers and ableton and be able to route them all to whatever synth/device I want. So is this easy to setup and use as a merger? can it work as two separate 3-4 to 1 mergers? I've had one or two with noisy/failing power supplies so ask, "Is the transformer buzzy?", as replacements are unavailable.ĭespite being 20 years old it remains a brilliant option for connecting a pile of MIDI boxes to one another without using a computer and if you're on a budget it's about the only option. You shouldn't have to pay more than £75 fo the parallel version, maybe £125 tops for the USB. You'll have some luck configuring with a computer with the former, less so with the latter (but it can be done).Įither way all the important bits can be set from the front panel without a computer, nor does it need to be tethered to a computer to operate. There's a USB version and a parallel port version. Believe it or not but the best solution remains the venerable MOTU MIDI Timepiece MTP AV. The timing was a mess.TioJim wrote:I have been round this block a number of times. But it was a pain when I tried to align the recorded files in Cakewalk Pro Audio a couple of years later. I'm sure the 'human factor' was not by design as you say. be carefull with the extermal other MIDI-hardware though. you will find no machine or gear that tops an ATARI in terms of MIDI-timing. In the end you could call that "humanized" MIDI-jitter.īut. with all the laultiness that comes with that. in lacking of measurement tools that was done by ear. thats bad, so you had to offset these tracks going to the Korg by that amount. some of them had internal MIDI latencies of 4 to 6 ticks. Korg synths were (are? dont know) known for their bad behaviour. ![]() The main reason for MIDI-timing issues with an ATARI is that the extermal MIDI-hardware has its own timing issues. so if there is no measurement of that, I guess in the first place that it wasnt there, and if it was there, it has probably other reasons. ![]() I dont believe in human reception as to be exact. I am sure, you didnt measure the precise timing issue? so. maybe it occurs to you so, but that then was accidentally. as with all computers they try to do their best within their given technical limits, so if there have been timing wobllings, it was in no way human. you can overthrow that with the said ATARI 4 + 1 MIDI-outs and provide the MIDI-outputs accordingly to the physical MIDI-outputs.Īnd I dont think that the MIDI-timing of tha ATARI is in any way human. MIDI is a serial communication protocol, which means, that are never will be able to have 2 events at the exact same time. When I recorded in a studio in France in the early 2000's, we synced the adats to an Atari and the midi sounded great, but only because it kind of had a 'human touch'. Atari got a great midi timing, but not accurate timing. ), and you will have to adjust to using 720kb disks unless you have an ATARI with harddrives. Cubase 2.0 or 3.01 for ATARI will do (the mixermaps within that Cubase-versions, but dont learn these things if you dont know them yet. you have to dig deep to get hands on software with that you can run that on an ATARI. an ATARI is rock-solid regarding to MIDI-timing, there is no other interface that could compare to that. the parallel-port can act with a simple cable parallel-to-4-MIDI-I/O (16 channels each of the 4, independent from each other) as the MIDI-interface and the main ATARI MIDI I/O acts with a MIDI-2-USB-cable as the MIDI-connection to the PC. or, if you know what an ATARI is and you have one use that as MIDI-interface. ![]()
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