Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

You realize that midi is a digital protocol, right?
No matter how many wires you connect, the same number of bits are going 
to go through!
The transmission bandwidth is not limited by the wire, it is determined 
by the transmitter.
And since it is specified in the midi standard, even if you could speed 
it up, it would then be incompatible with any receiving device.

What was the original problem?

Wesley D wrote:

>I wasn't talking about an actual mod to the xx7, a mod to a cable coming out of it.  Electronically speaking, if x amount of bytes are trying to get out of the cable, having two different paths to flow through seems like would work.  Like I said, it's a unique fix for a unique problem, and yes an interface is certainly the way to go,(but they run around $300).
> 
>If you just have the xx7 sequencing several external mods and boards this trick could give you four cables.  My understanding of this is that it's a sort of dynamic allocation.  The sequences can spit out whatever you put into it, it just might not fit down the cable as fast as you'd like.  So splitting the cable into two should open up some room.
> 
>-Wesley
>  
>