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Well, it took me a little while to figure out where the midi feedback was coming from. (I needed to mute realtime data going from the P2500 to all my midi ports.) But once I did that, it worked as expected. So, I would assume that if I had 16 people each playing one midi device, each on a different midi channel, merged into my P2500 (Motu parallel port midi router), simultaneously the P2500 would (1) record events on all 16 channels and (2) pass them through to either (a) a mutitimbral sound module or (b) 16 monotimbral sound modules or (c) some combination of modules. Once the recording was stopped, play would replay what was recorded exactly as heard.

I suppose if I were dubbing a 16 channel sequence from a different sequencer to record it on the P2500's sequencer, it should work the same.

However, if the goal is to have sequencer/sound module X play itself at the same time the E-Mu is recording, in order to avoid midi feedback and/or midi clock confusion and/or note doubling, you might have to switch some settings around in one or both in order to have the E-Mu sequencer play sequencer/sound module X. Of course it would depend on your midi wiring/routing and what parameters/settings you have access to on sequencer/sound module X.

BTW, to do this experiment I had to change the P2500 parameters to settings which I never use, so if this is what either of you wants to be able to do (or anyone else want to do), I will type up the settings I used.

Oh--I only used MultiA. If I changed configuration on the fly, I probably could have recorded the 16 midi channels onto track one and then added 16 more channels on track 2 set to MultiB. (Will have to test that.)

I had fun with this exercise. I am now wondering about developing a live midi looping performance modality based on this E-Mu sequencer usage. Maybe I can use the knobs in volume mode to mix MultiA channels and toggle to program mode to mix MultiB channels.

I am still not sure if this comes anywhere near the original goal, but I hope its helpful to someone.

Steve

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

Re: return to command station

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