> Back in the late eighties/early nineties MIDI Patchbays were fairly common
but are
> now less popular - replaced by multiport MIDI Interfaces for many users.
There were
> models from Digital Music Corp (MX8) subsequently bought by Ensoniq (KMX8
and
> KMX16) and models from Kawai (MAV8) and probably others that I've
overlooked.
Love them MX8s. I used to have 2 in my rack (totaled 12 ins, 16 outs) as
master routing and control for the entire band's synths. We've since
divided them up amongst 2 of us. But as for control and massaging the MIDI
data stream - they're excellent. You can filter a lot of stuff (aftertouch
as well as many others), change a lot of stuff (shift channels), and even
produce some interesting effects (like switching synths via velocity - IOW
if you hit the keys harder you'll be playing another synth). All this
besides its main purpose - to route MIDI inputs to your various synths. At
one time we had something like 9 controllers routed to 10 or so sound
sources. It was cool, but a bit unnecessary in the long run. It was just
cool that it actually worked on stage!
Here's a link to the editor program our bassist wrote for the MX8 which
works fine and is free:
http://www.geocities.com/emory_stagmer/mx8editor/Ed Edwards
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