Re: [AN1x] Re: Aftertouch is touchy !
2003-08-16 by Ed Edwards
> 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 Leader: Ezekiel's Wheel \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdRetro-Progressive Rock\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd http://www.untiedmusic.com/ezekiel http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/227/ezekiels_wheel.html \ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd