The trick is to have either enough MIDI interfaces or one interface with enough MIDI I/Os to connect to your computer simultaneously. For example, I have an old MOTU midi express (parallel port version) with 8 INs and 8 OUTs.
It is a function of the software to allow you to select which port you are working with. So all you should have to do is connect each piece of gear to an IN and and OUT, boot up the software, and select whichever ports you want the software to work with.
If you are trying to do this by in essence daisy chaining midi gear, it probably won't work in 99% to 100% of the cases. The software needs to receive data from the gear's MIDI OUT and the gear needs to receive the data at its MIDI IN.
If you've been doing MIDI stuff for years, I think there's just one little piece of the puzzle missing for you to get the sysex/computer connection. I could be wrong, but you just need to realize that you need a complete MIDI loop >>for each piece of gear<< to use editing software:
GEAR 1 (MIDI OUT) -------> COMPUTER (MIDI IN)
GEAR 1 (MIDI IN) <------- COMPUTER (MIDI OUT)
GEAR 2 (MIDI OUT) -------> COMPUTER (MIDI IN)
GEAR 2 (MIDI IN) <------- COMPUTER (MIDI OUT)
GEAR 3 (MIDI OUT) -------> COMPUTER (MIDI IN)
GEAR 3 (MIDI IN) <------- COMPUTER (MIDI OUT)
Hope this helps.
--Steve
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> I almost never end up using my collection of sysX editors because i can't get them running at the same time. I don't know how to do the "handshake" IN-Out OUT-In connection with multiple hardware devices (i.e. i would like to use my E$-XT ultra, my XL-7, and my Micron simultaneously with their respective editors running.) Is this something I can solve in mIdi-Ox, Bome's etc...?
> Much thanks I've been plugging away with MIDI for some years now, and I understand patching together some hardware and setting modes and channels, but SysX and the computer etc is a bit beyond me yet.
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> thanks.
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