hardware

Hardware setups are not the most easiest as may seem. Many people just plug in the cables like out to in and in to out and expect everything to work in a snip. This is often untrue.

It is often true you create a midi-loop and as long you do not touch anything not much will happen.

The loop starts as soon as you touch a note or move a fader, turn a knob… Because you send a midi message over the closed circuit, the signal will not stop and repeats itself. It is like open up a mic gain to far and create a horrible sounding feedback loop.

Nothing is less true with a midi signal.

Unless you really need the feedback from a external device like parameters of a oscillator or filter I strongly recommend to not use the midi in of the SL MKIII for feeding back information from synthesisers FROM THE SAME CHAIN.

I do use the midi in but for one and only reason. My Roland TR-8S is serving as a clock master to my SL MKIII midi in for when I want to play music with my Numark NVII DJ console and want to synchronise the TR-8S or hardware synth ARPS. Why? On the SL MKIII the tempo can only be adjusted in full steps, like 120, 121, 122. Playing and mixing songs often ends up on tempo settings like 122,5 or 139,9. Even 1/10th of difference will get a synched pattern off synch in matter of seconds or minutes slightly build up over time but noticeable . The TR-8S CAN set it’s tempo per 1/10th of a second thus is a excellent way to synchronise DJ gear towards the rest of the chain.

When the TR-8S is not powered on, (or the rx is set to off on the SL) the SL MKIII is the master clock for all the rest of my devices.

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Latency:

What is Latency?

Simply put, latency is the elapsed time from pressing a key (note) on the midi keyboard/controller to the point you hear the sound coming out of your speakers.

Although midi travels at the same speed as electrical signals, the slightest difference in time of arrival at the endpoint can cause problems resulting in synchronisation issues.

To avoid these problems you could try to place the midi hub in a central position and connect your midi devices with equal in length midi cables.

This is also true for the audio cables you use between the midi instruments and the Digital Audio Interface.

Most of the time I only connect a midi OUT of the MioXL to the midi IN of a specific synth, like the Mininova, Deepmind 12D, Cobalt….

By doing so I eliminate a possible midi loop and one thing less to have to worry about.

I learned this the hard way but I learned my lesson well.

Hi again,

It’s been a while but due to medical setbacks I couldn’t work on my projects as long and as much as i liked.

Bought some new gear in the meantime and to say the least it took me a while to implement everything into the setup.

-Motorised tv wall mount .

- Samsung QLED 120 Hz tv for gaming and visual projects editting.

This is mounted to the wall with the motorised wall mount

- Asus.32:9 (yes you read correctly 2x 16:9) 5120x1440 @ 165Hz. Ultra-wide curved screen.

Yes Apple M2 pro does this perfectly and is connected with usb-c alt-DP connection.

- A 2-fold wall mount for the Asus screen.

- DIY self made cabinet under my desk as a storage space and also to get more distributed load on the floor from my desk.

-Roland Gaia 2 synthesizer. Due to this purchase and the Kali IN-5 studio monitors, I can rebuild my desk once again, lol.

- Last but not least FINALLY a pair of studio monitors.

After a LONG time of consideration, MANY reviews on YT, and a immense sense of common sense I decide to go for

the Kali Audio IN-5 series. Main reason , it’s a 3-way, it is not to loud (FOR MY ROOM)160W.

80W Bass, 40W Mids, 40W high. And they still blow me away!

I still have my subwoofer which is a active + passive subwoofer and the IN-5’s in combination with these is superb.

At least for my room.

multimidi.site

Johan

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