The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Gary Gregson shared with us:

> Peter wrote:
> > I myself am waiting on mLAN. It's been in the waiting for quite a
> > while, but
> > the newly announced Korg Trition Rack has mLAN support. Now that is a good
> > sign.
>
> Yes I think we will (at last) see some mLAN products this year.

That's about time. My silver EX5 has this unused panel on the back
that's screaming for an mLAN board. OK, so actually it was me who
has been doing the screaming. :)

> Unlike USB, mLAN handles the MIDI protocol correctly. It effectively divides
> the full mLAN bandwidth into multiple streams at the correct MIDI
> bandwidth....so it looks like you have a whole bunch of MIDI ports with each
> operating at 31.25Kbits/s. In this way it overcomes the bandwidth
> discontinuity (and thus sysex bunching) that USB introduces. Therefore it
> should be reliable :-)

I'll let you know as soon as I've set things up. :)

> > My humble AN1x would still have to work with good old MIDI. I'll have to
> > wait how to combine it in my current setup.
>
> I think there will be break out boxes to convert mLAN to standard MIDI
> ports. The only reservation si going to be price....as the Firewire chipset
> is still (relatively) expensive :-(

The trouble is, I already have such a rather expensive break-out
box: my 01V digital mixer. I would be happy if I could just tap
off the MIDI from somewhere. The AN1x is happy with two inputs on
the 01V, but MIDI is another story. (And of course, the 01V doesn't
send the excess MIDI from the To Host port to the MIDI outs, so I
doubt it will do so if I equip it with mLAN.)

- Peter