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Re: Why 32 MIDI channels?

2001-10-16 by beat_rebel@yahoo.com

The way I understand it, there are 64 MIDI chanels. 32 internal and 32 
external. Each track can sequence to up to 16 channels. The power of 
these boxes is amazing!

--- In xl7@y..., mark@m... wrote:
> Hi, 
> I just got the XL-7 and haven't quite gotten my head around this 
> concept yet;  maybe someone here can shed some light on it for me?
> If the sequencer is only 16 track, what good does it do to transmit 
> 32 channels of MIDI?
> Shouldn't the sequencer be 32 track also?
> 
> Mark

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