Re: [AH] Looking for a midi patch bay - Roland a-880 or edirol u-880

From Sevo Stille
Sent Sat, Sep 22nd 2018, 09:40

Am 21.09.2018 um 23:27 schrieb Alex Timchak:
> I do indeed.  Thanks for clarifying.  Don’t want to pay evilbay prices
> tho!  Does it merge well? Need one to maximize my deluge to drive all my
> gear.

There were quite a few 8x8 MIDI matrix patchbays in the days before
everything started to get DAW controlled. For example, Kawai and Korg
also made some. My personal favourites are the Miditemp PMM-88 (very
powerful filtering, routing and merging, but very rare outside Germany),
and the Anatek AMP-16 (which doubles as a programmable 16x16 audio
matrix, SMPTE synchronizer and MAC ADB interface). Anatek also made a
SMP7 with only the MIDI patchbay and SMPTE sync. As far as MIDI is
concerned, the Miditemp devices are the cream of the crop, capable of
splitting, filtering and reassigning channels, CCs and note ranges,
while most other patchbays will only redistribute and merge ports.

Sevo