I have a midiman Audiophile with MIDI in and out.. I'm currently using my Roland v-drum module (td-3) with the card.. however, I want to incorporate a midman keystation 61.. but the drum module does not have a "thru" input and the keystation only has a MIDI out.
How do I make this work? I need a cheap solution that won't affect my latency. *shrug* Any help would be greatly appreciated.
hooking 2 midi devices to the Audiophile? help! :)
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 102 posts since 20 Mar, 2003 from baton rouge, la
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- KVRist
- 110 posts since 12 May, 2004 from Canada
Hmmm... No thru's.
IMHO, your best bet is to add a USB midi interface for more I/O. I have a M-Audio USB Midisport 2x2 that works great and is inexpensive. It's trivially easy to install, set up and use.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/M ... -main.html
They also make 1x1 units if you're really strapped for cash, as well as bigger ones.
Here's a link to a U.S. supplier: http://zzounds.com/cat--MIDI-Interfaces--2429
IMHO, your best bet is to add a USB midi interface for more I/O. I have a M-Audio USB Midisport 2x2 that works great and is inexpensive. It's trivially easy to install, set up and use.
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/M ... -main.html
They also make 1x1 units if you're really strapped for cash, as well as bigger ones.
Here's a link to a U.S. supplier: http://zzounds.com/cat--MIDI-Interfaces--2429
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 102 posts since 20 Mar, 2003 from baton rouge, la
Won't the USB port introduce a tad more latency than the native soundcard MIDI ports? Also, the USB will use a tad more resources.. are there any other options? Perhaps a MIDI splitter box of some sort?
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
When you think about it, the amount of data that is carried in a MIDI message is trivially small for a modern computer to process. While I'm no expert and may be incorrect, my common sense tells me that adding another MIDI device shouldn't introduce latency.
Greg
Greg
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 102 posts since 20 Mar, 2003 from baton rouge, la
Considering I wont be using both at the same time, I guess these are my best bets?
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=k ... id/702502/
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=k ... id/701211/
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=k ... id/702502/
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=k ... id/701211/
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- KVRist
- 110 posts since 12 May, 2004 from Canada
Won't the USB port introduce a tad more latency
Trivial amounts of both. MIDI is pretty low-bandwidth. Really, how bad IS your computer?the USB will use a tad more resources
What you probably want is a MIDI thru box (splitter). From what I see when I google for them, they're just as expensive as a USB MIDI interface, so why not just get one of those. Someday you'll want/need those additional channels.
