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

If you don't mind old gear, any dumb midi thru-box should do it--such as the ancient Casio TB-1; or you could build your own (though the parts might cost a tad more than a commercial vintage thru-box.

Another option would be a midi router. Before usb, MOTU made some parallel port midi routers which on the second-hand market have become quite cheap because of the disapperance of parallel ports.

With software and a parallel port, you can program (route and filter) 8 midi ins and 8 midi outs on the MOTU midi express, to take one example. However there are also 8 fatory setups, one of which will send the midi out on all inputs to all outputs. Thus you could take the midi clock, put it on one input and send it to up to 8 outputs.

So, for example, you could transmit midi clock only from an XL-7 and send it to 8 different drum machines with either the Casio or the MOTU. I am sure there must be other gear you could use. These are just some examples.



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "magpieindustries" <dach@...> wrote:
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> Can you recommend a specific product which is known to pass the clock and start/stop messages through? I thought any 'merge' device would do it, but now I'm not so sure.
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> / Niall
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Greg Waltzer <egw@> wrote:
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> > You can probably work it out with a 2x2 midi merge box.
> > 
> > magpieindustries wrote:
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> > >  
> > >
> > > Argh! Oh no, that is very bad news :(
> > > Im trying to add another drum module and it too does not retransmit 
> > > midi clock. It's starting to look like I can't get my stuff connected 
> > > no matter what way I arrange it.
> > >
> > > / Niall
> > >
> > > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com <mailto:xl7%40yahoogroups.com>, Greg 
> > > Waltzer <egw@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > For some reason, the XL7 does not retransmit received midi clock. It
> > > > only sends out midi clock when it's the source.
> > > > Might be better to use the XL7 as master.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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