Complex MIDI Routing - How to connect everything in your studio
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- Hi all, a short video on how all the MIDI is routed in my studio, showing how it's all connected, why it's routed that way and what it all does. I hope you enjoy the video and that it sparks some ideas on how you can connect your own gear.
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That's a pretty clever setup! It gets the job done and isn't complicated or costly. I can't say the same for my setups but they do get the job done just in a more complex and expensive fashion.
I have two different studio desks setup with two different arrangements for MIDI routing. One desk uses a MIDIPlus 16x16 USB MIDI interface with 16 in/out pairs addressable from my DAW. I can route any of my controllers or synths with keyboards to any others by assigning routing in my DAW, including multiple controllers to one synth/module or multiple modules from one controller. This enables me to use all 16 MIDI channels per port so my multitimbral synths and modules can use all their power with no overlap on channels.
My second desk setup uses the MRCC (MIDI Router Control Center) from Conductive Labs. It's a pricy piece of gear that gives me both a USB MIDI interface as well as direct assignable MIDI (5 pin DIN and USB host) routing right on the devices front panel. I can select what I want to route to in real time or save routing configurations for later recall. The MRCC also has per port MIDI message filtering, channel mapping, arpeggiation and other out-board MIDI functions. I can also use the DAW to map anything to anything even across USB MIDI and 5 pin DIN MIDI that may or may not be routed through the MRCC. It's a complicated setup, but it does allow for some powerful options when both studio desks combined are controlling 25 synths/modules, drum machines and samplers! I have a few MIDI ports available between the two desks so I guess there is more gear coming in the future. GAS is a real thing and I definitely have it.
Blimey, that's quite a set up. I'm a fan of the little MIDI solutions boxes, but just having looked up the specs on the MRCC - what a piece of kit !. Its like all the different midi solutions boxes; mergers, thru boxes, event processors, routers and filters etc, but all in one piece of kit. Might be pricey as you say, but tbh by time you'd bought all the separate 'little' boxes that MRCC works out way more cost effective (and the beauty of it is you've still got some spare connections for more gear 🙂)
Good lad. Cheers for this. Done the audio routing in/out of my mixer, midi was next so all praise the algorithm.
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Man, I've been thinking about how to do this for years, and I've never found a class like this. Thank you very much and congratulations! You got me signed up with this. Where I live unfortunately I don't have midi input boxes like this Quadra Marge, but there are sold with one input and several outputs, including a box with sync output to regulate the general clock. I'll see if I can buy more than one then, since you need more inputs before you can distribute the midi outputs. I want a 100% hardware setup, without PC and DAW. Will record with Zoom H6 on a mixer. I have a JDXA which is a great slave for the Loopstation 505 mkii, and I'm using Circuit Tracks to sync beats on Roland synth to the Loopstation clock. None of this needs midi boxes to work. But if I'm going to use racks/modules like Neutron, Behringer Pro One or Roland SE, I'll need to use the JDXA's midi output, which isn't yet being used today, to mix sounds (if these racks have midi trhu). Whenever, if you can demonstrate more specific and less systemic configurations like this great achievement, please share! Health and peace in your heart.
Thanks for the explanation, it helps with my thoughts regarding MIDI routing for my own setup.
This does not look confusing at all. Nice gear.
Appreciate this a lot! thanks!
Great help for connecting the synths instruments
Thank you for your video Mr. Splooty. It is a very helpful contribution. All my very best, E
I am using 4 x MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV, which provides 32 MIDI Ins and Outs. These MIDI interfaces can operate in stand alone mode with programmable patches, and also interface via USB to my Mac. Unfortunately these legacy MIDI interfaces are no longer sold by MOTU, but there are more modern equivalents today.
Great video. It helped me setup my midi combining a Digitakt II, Digitone, NDLR, and MatrixBrute.
Very clever use of those Midi boxes. I need something similar and have been looking into a more complicated solution. Rad setup well done
Awesome. Thank you for such a clear explanation. Midi foot controller looks useful too. 🎉
Thanks, yep the midi foot controller is a handy bit of kit. I’ve done some separate videos on how you can use it - I have it set up to control things like scenes on my MODX with the foot switches so I can change things like drum patterns and arps etc on the fly and and then use the foot pedals to control things like the superknob or mod/pitch bend wheels 🙂
I went the simpler option & got a MOTU MIDI Express XT, with 8 in's and 8 out's. Having a separate unique In/Out for each device, rather than daisy chaining.
Hi there, not familiar with the MOTU, but is that just a MIDI interface to send MIDI data to/from the computer ? If it is, then it would possibly save running individual USB cables to the PC - but not sure it would do what this set up does ? i.e. if I connected a midi controller to say MIDI 1 on the MOTU, could it then control all the synths on channels 2-8 ? Just interested 🙂
@@splootyvision What happens if your setup sends streams of CC data to multiple MIDI channels? Doesn’t your MIDI get “bogged down”?
Maybe it’s just my idea workflow; Don’t you use your DAW to define MIDI tracks/hardware, then switch to a different MIDI DAW track to play a different device? Or is your setup for more ‘LIVE’ playing/performance?
@@Anamnesia Hi, not experienced any issues and yes I think everyone works differently and its whatever work best for you. The main purpose of this set up is so that I can play everything without using the PC - so if I just want to turn it all on and jam, everything is connected to everything, so in a way yes it's sort of a 'live' set up. When recording, as you do I would define all the MIDI tracks in my DAW 🙂
I use an original MOTU midi express (the cheap one with the old parallel printer port) as an 8 in 8 out midi merge.
It’s not connected to a computer, all you need to do is select ‘merge all’ from the front panel.
I send midi out from a Digitakt which acts as a master sequencer and midi clock sync provider.
Using the MOTU everything is connected to everything else. Works like a charm, the MOTU stuff was pretty high spec back in the day.
Very informative.. thanks!
Thanksssss
Im from Mexico and i just begin to study musical production and i have to do some homework about this,but i didnt know very well how to do it
@@MusicGuy21 Thanks. If you have a look at the playlists on my channel there’s a whole load more videos on MIDI and I’ve just posted one today on audio routing and usb connections. 🙂
THANK YOU!!! This ist what I needed!!
Right in time. I was looking up this subject just a week ago. I'm worried about MIDI loop. Just learned about it and not sure how it happens.
Tbh I’ve never had any problems with midi loops/feedback with my set up and like yourself not really clear how it happens.
Good afternoon, I'm Paulo and I'm a little lost on the midi issue.
I've seen a lot of videos about midi connections, but I still have a lot of questions about how to do them in my case.
I saw some examples of data in your video, but I still have doubts, so I'm going to ask my question how I should connect my equipment.
and configured without software such as Native Instruments, KOMPLETE KONTROL.
My hardware is:
- Native Instruments Kontrol s88 MK3- Midi keyboard.
- M-Audio Code 61 MK2 -Midi Keyboard.
- Clarett +4 Pre - Audio Interface.
- Erica Synths Midi THru Box- Split Midi 8 Thru Midi ports.
- Novation Launch Pad Pro Mk2 - Daw Controller.
- Marantz microphone model MPM-3500R with phantom power.
This equipment is to connect to the PC but I want to use the midi ports for communication, only the Audio Interface connects to the PC via USB.
I've tried but something I'm doing wrong I don't have sound on the Midi keyboards.
That's why I'm asking for your help to solve the problem.
If possible, a diagram of how to make the connections and configure the software.
Hi Paulo, I’ve emailed you directly, let me know if that helps you out 🙂
Thank you! 🙂👍
Great vid ... but how do you switch the channels on your midi keyboard(s)?
Hi and thanks. The hardware synths are all set to there own specific MIDI channels by going into the 'settings' one each one (it varies for each synth, but there's normally some sort of setting button/menu where you can set the MIDI channel for a synth). For the MIDI Keyboards (the Keystep 37 and the Keylabd 61) that you see me using in the video to trigger the hardware synths; you can change the MIDI channel on the fly and therefore which synth they trigger. For example the little Keystep 37 on my desk, you hold shift and then one of the first 16 keys on the left (which are numbered 1-16 corresponding to the MIDI channels). So if I press shift and the first white key I get MIDI channel 1 which triggers the MODX, if I press shift and the first black key I get MIDI channel 2 which is the Matrxibrute and so on.....
Hope that helps and answers the question? 🙂
The studio is one thing. It becomes more imperative to have a reliable plug’n’play MIDI configuration for the road.
True, but nothing here really that wouldn't stand up to life on the road. The audio interface could be removed (as only being used for PC communication with the FCB1010), other than that its just some midi cables and a couple of thru/merge boxes 🙂
Hi there, great explanations - Thank you, I still have a question: At the end you say that alle devices are also aditionally connected via usb midi. ? This I do not understand- since the midi data is alleady connected via the 5 pin connections and should be able to give the midi data in the DAW Cubase. I would higly appreciate if you could give a a a clarification. best wishes-
Hi there, the devices are only connected to each other via 5 pin MIDI and not to the computer and therefore are not sending any MIDI data to the DAW. Basically I can use this set up without turning on my PC. If however I want to get the MIDI data into the DAW then they need to be connected to the computer in some way, which is where I use the USB connections. It's also worth remembering that MIDI is a 'one way' communication protocol i.e. data can only be sent in one direction on a single MIDI cable. In order for a keyboard to connect with the DAW over 5 pin MIDI it would need to be connected to a MIDI interface, which in turn would connect to the PC via USB and would need to be connected by it's MIDI in & MIDI out ports in order for the keyboard to both send and receive data. USB on the other hand offers 'two way' communication and can send and received MIDI data over one cable. Hope that helps and clarifies ? 🙂
Hi Splooty. I stumbled across your channel and it has been very enlightening. I’ve been trying to figure out how to network all my gear together and with my DAW/VSTs. I haven’t discovered my workflow yet, but I love the idea of saving a template with everything hooked up at once. I watched your other video regarding this, but it’s hard to absorb, so I came back to this one, because it is mainly a DAWless setup and I’m using it as a starting point. I have a couple questions where it gets to your audio interface:
1 - what is the functional purpose of the midi out on your foot controller splitting to the Merge and the audio interface midi ins, then back out to the foot controller?
2 - I’m assuming the midi jacks on the audio interface is how you get midi to and from the DAW. If that is the case, why is there a need for USB cables as well?
3 - Do USB cables fall under the same 16-channel restrictions as MIDI cables, and if so, are midi and USB (combined) under the limits of 16 channels?
-Thanks! Jeff
Hi and thanks for the questions.
1. For the FCB1010 I split the signal to the merge box and the audio interface so that it can 'talk' with the PC via the audio interface (effectively using the audio interface as a MIDI interface as the FCB doesn't have USB) AND simultaneously send its signal to all the other hardware via the merge/thru boxes.
I need the FCB to talk with the PC to send/receive Sysex files from the software editor if and when I re-program the FCB and I also use the FCB to control various transport functions in Cubase. Using the splitter allows me to do all this and also control the hardware synths without having to unplug/plug any cables.
Without the splitter I would only be able to do one thing at a time i.e. either communicate with the PC or communicate with the hardware synths, but not both at the same time. With the splitter I can have everything communicating at the same time.
2. No, all MIDI is sent to the DAW via USB.
In effect I have a Hybrid set up where I can operate both DAWless or with a DAW. The MIDI cables connect all the hardware together so that I can play and trigger anything I want, how I want - without the need for a PC. When I want to record the MIDI data I can fire up the PC and everything is all set up and routed in there via a template (effectively mirroring my DAWless set up) and all the midi data sent and received via the USB connections (All my synths are connected individually to the PC via USB through a pair of powered USB hubs).
As I cover in some later videos, I could (if I had one) connect everything via MIDI to an all singing all dancing midi interface like a mioXL or MRCC and then just have one USB cable going to the PC from the MIDI interface, but this is just how my set up has evolved. Also, to clarify and in connection with point 1 above - I only use the MIDI ports on the audio interface for PC communication with the FCB1010.
3. No USB cables are different to MIDI in various ways.
First they allow bi-directional communication through one cable, whereas MIDI is uni-directional hence you need two midi cables (in and out) for two way communication.
Second, each physical MIDI port can carry 16 channels, so with two ports you have 32 channels, 3 ports 48 channels etc. However a single USB can (I believe) host up to 16 ports or 256 channels through a single cable/connection. This enables how midi interfaces work, for example if you have an 8 port midi interface, with 8 synths connected, each port can host 16 channels - 128 in total. All those 128 channels can then be sent down a single USB cable to the PC.
Hope that all made sense and gave the answers you were looking for. Cheers, Graeme.
@@splootyvision Thanks! (See how I foolishly assumed that the audio interface had USB and was connected to the DAW?) Thanks for helping answer these questions. I had an MS Quadra Thru that a friend gave me about a year ago, and I ordered a Quadra Merge that just came yesterday. I’m going to just have a go at it, and see where I land.
One other question I had was this: I noticed when I was on Midi Solutions’ website they have an editor software, where I guess you can hook up to their units and tweak specific settings. Did you have to do that with your setup, or only set the midi send/receive settings at each synth?
@@1jhoffmaHi, no need for any editor software for the Thru and Merge boxes 🙂 PS the audio interface is connected to the PC/DAW via USB, but primarily just to record the audio into the DAW (all the midi data as mentioned goes through separate USB cables/hun)
I thought it had my dawless setup connected but.. Why am I getting feedback when trying to record my Yamaha CP and Roland JX08 into my brain, SQ64? Thanks!!!
@@romanyel Hi, how have you got everything connected ? and what do you mean by feedback ? Could be that you’ve created a midi loop, turning off ‘Local Control’ on the affected synths might help as it maybe that they are sending out and receiving back midi signals at the same time causing a conflict.
Hello. Thanks for the great video. I want to use midi connection on my live gigs. But I'm curious if there is any disadvantages. Should I use a midi connection with a master keyb & a midi keyb. setup live? Is that reliable enough?
@@mhmtse No disadvantages using MIDI for live performing, in fact it’s really the most reliable way to connect and have keyboards talking to one another 🙂.
@@splootyvision Oh nice. I was really thinking that there should be a catch, since there is not a single keyboard player around me using MIDI. They always buy two seperate keyboards. But I love my main keyboard, and want the ability to change sound patches of my "2 keyboards" with just one click from my main keyboard. So I thought "Why no one using this great technology?". Maybe they just don't know better, I don't know =) Thanks a lot for the fast response!
Hi Splooty
Im trying to do a basic setup with two hardware peices and a midi controller and wanna know how to route it before investing.
I have a drumlogue and wanna do jams with it together with the minilogue XD module. Do to missing space, i would like to get the module version, since i already have a midi controller.
Both drumlogue and minilogue XD only have midi in/out, no MIIDI thru.
I wanna be able to:
1: Use my drumlogue as the master clock over midi and minilogue XD module as a slave (Since the SYNC/IN out function wont work with play/stop, only tempo adjustments with Korg)
2: And at the same time, be able to control a the minilogue XD module, with a midi controller.
Am i able to achive this with a midi box? Or should i spare my self the headache, and buy a normal minilogue XD, So i can take the midi controller out of the equation?
Hi there, I think the solution would be the midi MERGE box. I use a quadra merge (4 in 2 out) but they do a cheaper ‘2 in 2 out’ (have a look at other manufacturers as well, but I like the midi solutions as they are powered by the midi cables, most others need an external power supply). You could then plug the midi keyboard and the drumlogue into the merge box and then out of there into the Minilogue. The merge box allows both signals to be merged into one midi output and passed to the single in on the Minilogue. The Minilogue would then receive the signal from the midi keyboard, as well as the clock and start/stop from the drumlogue. Having said that it’s probably cheaper to just get the keyed Minilogue and just connect midi out of the drumlogue to it. 🙂
@@splootyvision thank you so much, ive been trying to wrap my head around the basics. But you made me understand it first read, how to intergrate my midi controller to the set up - thanks again 😊
Do sound cables need to be sent out of every device to a mixer?
@@pauleugene8286 Yes, if you want to hear the audio through studio monitors and/or record the audio into a DAW. All my synths have audio cables to a mixer, the stereo out of mixer goes into my audio interface and the main out of the audio interface is connected to my monitors (or I can listen direct from the headphone output on the audio interface). PS dependent on how many synths have, you could bypass the mixer and go straight into an audio interface.
@@splootyvision Thank you
I plan on making a setup using an audio interface with a midi digital piano as well as a midi keyboard with the foot pedal switch to go into my laptop to ue with a daw, my interface has only one midi in so I figured I needed the midi multi your using to use both keyboards, I'm confused still by the foot switch and how that would connect to everything else and I guess because you have a lot more going on I'm struggling to understand in this video, don't suppose you have done any other videos with a slightly simpler version using maybe just two keyboards with footswitches and audio interface before ?
Hi there, in a way it all depends on exactly what you are wanting to achieve/how you want the gear to interact with one another i.e. what do you want to control what ?
What sort of footswitch are we talking about and what do you want to be able to use it do ? I'm assuming the MIDI keyboard will be for triggering VST/Soft synths in a DAW and then the digital piano for just piano ? In simple terms if you're always going to be using a DAW then you don't necessarily need the 5pin MIDI connections, just connect the two keyboards to your PC via USB (if they both have USB), same with the foot pedal if it has USB - and then you can route how everything talks to each other in the DAW.
I have a 'Hybrid' set up where everything works without a PC via the MIDI cables, but is also 'at the same time' all connected via USB to the PC for routing in the DAW.
With my Footswtich (FCB1010), I have it running to the MIDI In/Out on the audio interface as the FCB doesnt have USB and I need it to talk to the PC for programming the footswitch with software editors and also as I use it to control things like transport controls in Cubase and also Guitar Rig Pro VST. The FCB is also connected to all the hardware synths so I can use it to control them and I use a simple MIDI Y splitter cables to split the MIDI Out from the FCB to both the In on the Merge Box and the In on the Audio Interface.
Hope that all made a bit of sense, if you want I could give you some ideas on how to hook it together if let me know exactly what gear looking at and how you want it to all work together. Also, I have a video on 'setting up a home studio' which might help, that you can find here.
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@@splootyvision I've been looking since I commented and I think that I could plug the second midi keyboard into the laptop with usb into daw and everything else into the daw via the audio interface, the reason I was asking is that I have only one midi in and for maybe doing live recording and using the midi keyboard as a drum loop machine as well I thought id need to have it all running into the audio interface but seems I won't, I also use pedals for the guitar and one of my loopers is there so that was complicating my brain bit as well I guess I would be using the foot switches to be able to use built in loopers in logic to have that midi looping as well as looping using my guitar board and also the mic line, I'm new and haven't even bought my piano yet I'm just doing my due diligence and researching a lot first so I don't buy guy I wont use or will need to replace quickly and so that I can just get what I need to have a straight up set up that will let me go wild and creative for some years to come without hassle, it does seem that if I am using my daw and using the monitors I have as an amp or headphones that it wont matter if the second midi goes direct into the laptop and I can record the live performances as I do them later with that set up so I recon it should be ok for now, I will take a look at your video and thanks truly for taking the time to give a good response :) much love fam
Hi, if i connect that way is my effect plugins such as valhalla will be played with my hardware synth?
Yep, would still all work ok. For example if I play my matrixbrute using my Keystep 37 (as the matrixbrute is behind me when sat at my desk) and add say a reverb plug in effects the matrixbrute as intended. All the MIDI connections are doing is determining what can trigger what 🙂. Hope that helps, cheers.
Will this whole setup work in this setup without the computer? Or it works because keystep just switches tracks in some DAW?
@@gryg666 Yep, all works without a computer 🙂.
So would it be possible to connect several desktop synths via midi thru box into one midi controller or workstation and from the workstation into the daw?
No, a midi thru box is generally for taking the signal from one synth and splitting it out to multiple other synths. If you wanted to connect several synths into a single one then you'd be looking at a merge box. I assume though you're wanting to control all your desktop synths from one 'master controller' and be able to record everything into your DAW ? If so then you could:
1. Just connect everything to the computer via usb and do all the routing in the DAW (CHEAPEST OPTION)
2. Use MIDI cables to Connect the 'master' to a Thru box and connect that to all the desktop synths. Then connect everything individually by USB to computer via a USB hub (MIDDLE OPTION $ WISE)
3. Connect everything via midi cables to a midi interface (like an iconnectivity mioXL) where you can route everything and send all the midi to the PC via a single USB (MOST EXPENSIVE OPTION)
Hope that helps. Cheers :-)
@@splootyvision Thank you. This is really complicated for me😞
I have a keylab 61 essential mk3 and I thought it was just as simple as the yamaha prs's using quarter inch cables connected directly to a speaker and its done... but the hole on the back is "control, usb and midi out" I'm struggling on setting it up as well as getting a sound from a speaker. I downloaded all the software (analog lab, midi control center etc.) but I think it's on the cable connections.. It will be a big help of you could make a video of it sir..
Hi there, you can't hook speakers direct to the Arturia as it is purely a midi keyboard and doesn't make any sounds on its own, all it is doing is triggering the VSTs (analog Lab etc) presumably within some sort of DAW (so you can record what you're playing). So, you need to hook your speakers to your PC to get the sound out of your DAW. You can in principle connect the speakers direct to your PC and use its built in sound card using a Y cable with Left +Right RCA (or whatever connectors on your speakers to a single mini jack that would then go into the headphone socket on your PC. In your DAW you would then choose the PC sound card as your output. The better way though is to use an audio interface, hooked to your PC via a USB cable and then your speakers are connected to the audio interface. Hope that helps 🙂
Just to clarify on my previous reply. You need to connect the Keylab to your PC via USB so that it can talk to Analog Lab etc. Then either connect your speakers to your PC, or.....connect the PC to an audio interface via USB and then connect the speakers to the audio interface. Then you need to make the correct settings either in the 'Audio/MIDI settings of the standalone Analog Lab, or within your DAW to make sure the sound is being routed to the correct place. If having problems let me know and see if I can help further. It all really depends on what equipment you are using e.g are you using Analog lab inside of a DAW (like Cubase) or just in standalone mode, do you have an audio interface or are you just monitoring sound directly out the computer, what the connections on the back of your speakers/monitors (assuming RCA) 🙂
would be interesting to see your latency
@@FlynnTaggart23 None that I’m aware of. In fact since I made this video I have added a PolyBrute, TR-8S and Pro-1 into this set up and still no issues. The PolyBrute, Matrixbrute, Deepmind and MODX all come off the Quadra Thru box, with the Neutron and Pro-1 daisy chained off the Deepmind and back into the Keystep 37. The TR-8S then sits in between the Merge and Thru boxes. Everything syncs perfectly and no latency that I can sense or hear 🙂
I use a Novation 49SL MK III controller keyboard output to an AKAI MPC ONE acting as a sequencer, and out from the AKAI to a JL Cooper SYNAPSE 16 in x 20 out midi routing box to control all my synths.
Nice set up 👍🏻
@@splootyvision Thank you friend.
...and i am still confused how to hook up studio speakers to Arturia mk2.......
Realised never responded to this (not sure if you were joking, apologies if you weren't). You can't hook speakers direct to the Arturia as it is purely a midi keyboard and doesn't make any sounds on its own, all it is doing is triggering the VSTs (analog Lab etc) presumably within some sort of DAW. So you need to hook your speakers to your PC to get the sound out of your DAW. You can in principle connect the speakers direct to your PC and use its built in sound card using a Y cable with L+R RCA (or whatever connectors on your speakers to a single mini jack that would the go into the headphone socket on your PC. In your DAW you would then choose the PC sound card as your ouput. The better way though is to use an audio interface, hooked to your PC via a USB cable and then your speakers are connected to the audio interface. Hope that helps 🙂
@@splootyvision oh...Thank you so much for replying....yes...in the meantime i decided to jump into the deep end as usual and bought the Arturia 88 mk 2, speakers and minifuse 4....... managed to get it right and learning more from your nice video tutorials.... really appreciate what you are doing helping others learn.....thats very noble I say...! thks again
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How to connect usb to usb (yamaha-midikeyboard) NO PC !!!
No normál 5 pin out.
Hi - which synths/midi keyboards are you trying to connect. If none of them have midi ports at all then something like this might be the ticket:
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If it's just the midi keyboard that only has usb, but the other synth/s have 5 pin MIDI then a USB to midi box would be the answer (you plug usb in one end and then it has 5 pin midi ports that come out of it to connect to the synths.
Hope that helps 🙂
great video but HELP
If I can I will 🙂
Good luck. I'm going to have to hire a professional. LMAO
buy a Conductive Labs Mrcc make life so much easier
You're the second person to mention the MRCC. I hadn't heard of it before, but when looked at the specs it does look a great piece of gear - something for the future I think 🙂
Sorry but the graphic is not very helpful if one doesn’t recognize all of the synths from a little picture. I am lost…
Hi, sorry about that, not something anyone else has commented on, but appreciate the feedback. If it helps these are the bits of equipment, starting from the top left hand corner and going clockwise round the outside we have; Arturia Keylab61, FCB1010 Foot Controller, UMC404HD Audio Interface, Yamaha MODX8+, Behringer Neutron, Behringer Deepmind 12, Arturia Matrixbrute, Arturia Keystep37. In the middle of the picture the two 'boxes' are form MIDI Solutions - the top one is a Quadra Merge and the bottom one is a Quadra Thru. Hope that helps 🙂
So, I am not sure what you are doing with all this exactly, but why can't you just do all this on a decent powerful computer with one good decent piano with nice keys. I have a decent simple yamaha with weighted keys that my laptop can hover over it with my bed desk and hold a bigger monitor and keybaord and mouse and a small audio interface on it.
Hi, effectively Yes, you could make all the 'sounds' using VSTs on a computer - if you check out my Home Studio Set Up Video, I delve into this showing you can produce music with either a little or a lot of gear. However I find this is quite limiting when it comes to creativity. You can only really play and record one track at a time, however I like to jam live creating ideas have multiple sequencers going, twisting and changing knobs and sliders on the fly etc. I do use and have a lot of software synths, but tend to find the hardware more inspiring. That being said there's nothing wrong with being totally 'in the box', many people prefer it (and it can be much cheaper !) 🙂