It's crazy cool to me that MIDI was made exactly 40 years ago and it stood the trial of time to this day. Dave Smith and Sequential had a huge impact on the modern music industry and I think many people don't realize, as they're not nearly as big as Korg or Yamaha. By the way you said MIDI was invented by Dave Smith Instruments - they were actually called Sequential back then and DSI is the name they had to take for the recent couple of years after they decided to reactivate their brand and they eventually reclaimed the rights to use the original name - Sequential. They were the first that allowed musical instruments to talk to each other in a modern way. They also revolutionized synthesizers, connecting the analog with digital and taking the best out of each domain. Dave passed away a year ago. Rest in peace Dave :(
@@JohnSAitken nope. Atari weren’t even the first to have midi on a computer. Dave Smith and the president of Roland worked it out, and set it free on the world (first “open source”). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI Read ‘history’ and ‘applications’
What an excellent video. Well done! A short explanation on how to use MIDI THRU to synch with gear. The Daisy Chain ideas simply brilliant. Thanks for putting this together.
This has been one of the most useful videos on MIDI Ive found I t eh last few years! I really like your relatable mindset as opposed to channels from conpanies that only present the viewer with a product to buy demo'd by a 'pro'. It's great to have a sense of community
This was really useful. As someone new to this, I often get a bit confused over what USB does and does NOT accomplish. Thanks for putting this up - subscribed!
This is what I needed! Why is it so damn hard to find information on how to do this 0_0 setting up a home studio soon and need to understand how to control multiple desktop synths from one midi keyboard thankyou!!! ✌️
Oh really.......just like that you can summarize what a DAW can and can't do after a year of making music? If you did a deep dive on your software you used you would probably feel overwhelmed pretty quickly. Hybrid setups are the most effective.
Great video, the only disadvantage to a setup like this is that all your gear in the chain has to be powered on... Normally midi-thru ports are not working without powering up.. few exceptions that hardwire midi-in to miti-thru
oh snap. ive have formally surpassed previous incarnations of geekdom, and have entered the midi twilight zone. i actually understood exactly how you chain everything, and even what equipment you are using. i dig the euro synths! im using all native instrument gear, with a couple token pieces of akai pro audio. to be fair and honest, i did learn to program general midi c back in the middle 90s when i was working as an Apple Multimedia developer. Ill also say that todays midi gear is so far beyond what we began with back in the day. general midi was , to paraphrase einstein, spooky from a distance, and we referred to the phenomena as voodoo, as we also used the term scsi voodoo. sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt, hence the name voodoo, and scsi voodoo. crap. i just dated my self. im old as dirt apparently, but kickin out some decent progressive trance, and post industrial groove porn, with a new album scheduled for release towards the end of the year. you my young friend, upon seeing what youre working with, appear to have a bright future, indeed. cheers.
Thanks! That is exactly what I needed to know. Quick and to the point. This is why I like you. I am such a noob about MIDI. My mind glazes over, when it comes up..but it's becoming essential, now that I'm really trying to do a synth rig.
I agree with others about a more in-depth analysis of midi . I most of the manuals they seem to assume you must know what CC , program change etc is and how to use it. I would be good to show same examples using different hardware
What would you recommend for my current setup? Drum machine: _Behringer RD-9_ Synths: _KORG Microkorg, KORG Minilogue_ DAWless is cool if I were to be performing live at an actual gig, but in my bedroom or living room, I would like to record my performance in DAW (Ableton Live). I have an audio interface (Behringer UMC202HD) which I think should be enough, but i've also been considering getting a mixer (Mackie ProFX 12v3) to connect the gear to Until then, should I just plug the Behringer RD-9 and one of the two synths into the preamps of the audio interface via mono TRS cables and record my performance in DAW? Or would that not work like that? I'm so lost here, but this video makes sense. Just not sure how I'd apply it to my baby setup
Thank you for this simple quick video! I'm a guitarist who is just getting into synths. Bought a digitakt, and just got a minilogue XD. This was really helpful, thanks!
I have been scanning the web and came across this excellent tutorial from you. I just purchased a BOSS RC-300 looper pedal and I own a Casio CT-680, Yamaha PSR-530, Yamaha DJX, and Roland EXR-5. Looking forward to utilizing these with the daisy chain setup.
Great video ma'am... Very detailed explanation.. This was my biggest query on synth Thank you so much, Keep it up with your music ma'am... May God bless you n your family Love from India ... Stay safe, stay healthy
Do you have a video showing how to start/stop sync and note input OCTATRACK to Mother and mother SYNCING the DFAM up to it all? Settings for Octa and the Mother set up process. Let me watch this again! Hope you have a splendid holiday and you are well!
Great video. It is worth mentioning that you are using midi clock. I used to be confused about the difference between midi clock and midi time code. Midi clock simply transmits simple start, stop, continue and song position commands. A clock "tick" is transmitted 96 times per beat (if I remember correctly). I like how you set up the volcas along with the pocket operators. Where do you get all those nice stands from?
Omg! I wish you were my neighbor. I’ve recently decided to take all my gear that i have collected over the years and get serious about making music. Trying to organize and hook it all together was driving me insane! I’m so glad to have found your videos! FYI- jealous of all your beautifully organized synths😊
I barely found out about this but "Ikutaro Kakehashi" founder of "Roland" was a key to the development & collaborator with Dave Smith for the invention of the "MIDI" , they both received an award for the contribution/invention.... Very informative video tho !
You're too smart for my non-English brain, I'm having to watch this on 1/2 speed (you don't even sound drunk at 1/2 speed btw), but this is the first good video on midi I've found, and I've watched about twenty, so thank you!
That's cause I was full drunk when I made this video lol JK I talk pretty fast, specially when I'm excited- this I know ':) I might make an updated version of this video now that it's been a few years and I've gathered more knowledge on the subject !
@@JAdeWii_ please do! maybe add an explanation for how one controller can be connected to several devices but only trigger one at a time, or wther it's possible to also daisy chain controllers; I would like to have something like the behringerb101 floor board as well as an 88 key keyboard AND a fader controller of some sort controlling my VSTs. Also: I still don't understand what the difference is between mid in/out and midi thru
that went from 0 to confusing in .00008 seconds ! This is probably good for people with years of experience with MIDI. It doesn't help people just starting out.
This vid is as informative as it is rare. Major props! I have an old rack mount version: The TC Helicon Voiceworks which does have 'in,' 'thru,' and 'out,' options. All I want to do is send it into an old Yamaha synth that has 'in' and 'out' midi. Would I simply run the 'in' and 'thru' cables to the back of the Yamaha? Thx.
Whaaaat !!!! You Gooo Mija you go!!! Never seen a woman do this !!! Very impressive. Hola my synth is the Roland Fantom X6 and it’s an old but goody however it has no usb but it has the Midi-dim in/out/thru… I’m using my Behringer Interface to go to my Windows 10 DAW. >>> do I go out of my Fantom.X6 into my In of my Behringer Interface then Look for it in my DAW STUDIO ONE 6.5??? Thank you for your tut and for your help!!!
so before you brought the key lab into the mix, the octatrack was controlling your set up? When you plugged the keylab into the octa track the key lab became your master?
I need help! 😃 I have managed to sync my Arturia MicroFreak with my Korg Monologue, Korg Volca Beats, Korg Volca Bass, Korg Volca Keys, Korg Volca FM and Korg Volca Sample. What I am struggling with is to sync my Korg microKORG with my Arturia MicroFreak or my other gear. The Korg microKORG has only MIDI out or in and thru and no clock 3,5mm minijack like my other gear. Do I neet to dig into the menus of both my Korg microKORG and Arturia to sync them?
How does audio get out of all the devices? Like 1 drum machine and 4 synths, do you have to have an interface with 5 trs inputs? Do you chain the output of one to the input of the next so eventually one device is getting the sound from all the others?
Great video! One question, do you need to set the individual slave devices to a certain midi channel in order to get tempo info or does that translate regardless of the midi channel?
Loving your new studio setup, especially the volcas and POs box+mixer arrangement. My humble arrangement is sounding worse the more complex I make it. Got problems with mix and individual audio levels (cheap and nasty mixer is probably the culprit) and now I have midi problems. Was using a midi merger box (up to 4in/4out) which is usb powered but it doesn't work properly now. Reverted to simple midi split cables and now I can't have one of my keyboards in it ...ARRGGHH! Think I need to do (yet another : ( } RESET on the whole system. The volca mixer for just the volcas and POs has given me an idea...Thank you ; )
love the video but it's a little fast for me to follow. but thats cool no worries. i dig your to-the-point style anyway. i have a related question, maybe you can help. i use ableton live and love some of the cool max for live devices. i have a small eurorack setup, plus the moog dfam, subharmonicon, grandmother...semi modular stuff. anyway, i was wondering with that erica synths midi module in conjunction with a usb midi/audio interface plugged into the computer and setup in ableton, if i could basically turn my modular gear into a midi instrument that could be triggered and "played" by these ableton devices. specifically thinkiing of those devices made by Dillon Bastan. would be cool to use these software "devices" to trigger v/oct pitch and envelopes on modular gear, then send the audio back into ableton to record it.
wow!! very clear. really informative. kinda helps... no, not kinda... this really helps take some of the heebie-jeebies out of getting the heck off of the mouse & computer & getting rolling with a hardware rig... which, despite my fears & very limited understanding of things, is exactly what I'm in the middle of doing. so I can't thank you enough for helping me along with vids like this one.
This was so lovely! Do you by chance do any consultancy like if I could hire you for a few hours to help me with a few audio synth routing things in my home studio via Zoom or something?
That was good work Jade, I can't lie tho... baffling. I'm fresh from the MPC DAW realm, and I've just bought my first synth, a Beringer JT 4000, I can't even hook it up to MPC 2 software and have it controlled by my main keyboard.
Careful with the MIDI Solutions Quadra Thru it leaches power from the MIDI port of the device plugged to it's MIDI IN, so if you use it with some devices that also rely on the limited juice supplied over MIDI you'll get some bad behavior. Still it's a nice through box as it doesn't require a wall wart or battery ( just don't get exotic with running an Anatek MIDI Filter ahead of it's MIDI IN or a RetroKits RK-002 on it's MIDI OUTs.) Other MIDI Thru boxes with obligatory wall warts will provide power to their MIDI Out Ports without leaching. As a rule of thumb though if the Thru box is without external power it is leaching power from the MIDI device connected to its MIDI In port and shouldn't be used with any other non-powered MIDI devices. But all that is way more depth than a starter overview should have to cover. Why not use the MIDI Ins on the Volcas? They have an annoying feature that they always receive Start/Stop (MIDI Real Time) messages from the "Brain". Of course if you have a MIDI Filter you can filter out the offending MIDI messages while still allowing MIDI Clock to sync the Volcas, or just use the Clock In ports... but then you lose the ability to trigger the Volcas externally with the sequencer "Brain" which depending on your situation might be more useful than the internal sequencer (ie. Swing on a Volca Bass, Beats, or Keys since it's built in sequencer is missing that feature.) MIDI Outs from things with Keys will send notes and CC# Messages generated internally as well as Clock... where as MIDI Thrus will only pass the exact messages they receive on their MIDI IN unaltered and immediately (except in the case of the Quadra Thru which first leaches a small amount of voltage and then passes the MIDI Messages (minus some small amount of voltage.)
A little fast for me being a beginner. Please direct me! I have a Presonus audiobox usb96, Novation mininova, Arturia Beatstep, Arturia MKII MINILAB, and a Behringer rd6 rythm machine. these all connect into a dell optiplex 3020. I've had to unplug the minilab just to get Reaper to work properly. Please help me configure everything so it all works together.
It's crazy cool to me that MIDI was made exactly 40 years ago and it stood the trial of time to this day. Dave Smith and Sequential had a huge impact on the modern music industry and I think many people don't realize, as they're not nearly as big as Korg or Yamaha. By the way you said MIDI was invented by Dave Smith Instruments - they were actually called Sequential back then and DSI is the name they had to take for the recent couple of years after they decided to reactivate their brand and they eventually reclaimed the rights to use the original name - Sequential. They were the first that allowed musical instruments to talk to each other in a modern way. They also revolutionized synthesizers, connecting the analog with digital and taking the best out of each domain. Dave passed away a year ago. Rest in peace Dave :(
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Atari ST and the like were using MIDI ports on their Computer way before them people started using MIDI on Synths
@@JohnSAitken nope.
Atari weren’t even the first to have midi on a computer.
Dave Smith and the president of Roland worked it out, and set it free on the world (first “open source”).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI Read ‘history’ and ‘applications’
Why has it taken me 5 years to find this kind of a video... WTF
Dude.. why has it taken me 30 years to submit and use midi.. I've been beat matching my machines like a dj my whole life haha
Feeling like going to college for 5 plus years was a waste of time. You have taught me so much thanks
The korg/pocket operator setup you have is pretty awesome.
Concise, quick, and no frills/ego. A+ work, Jade! Thank you!
What an excellent video. Well done! A short explanation on how to use MIDI THRU to synch with gear. The Daisy Chain ideas simply brilliant. Thanks for putting this together.
This has been one of the most useful videos on MIDI Ive found I t eh last few years! I really like your relatable mindset as opposed to channels from conpanies that only present the viewer with a product to buy demo'd by a 'pro'. It's great to have a sense of community
Love this tutorial: Wonderful and so organized !!
This was really useful. As someone new to this, I often get a bit confused over what USB does and does NOT accomplish. Thanks for putting this up - subscribed!
I love to see girls nerding out around synths :3 Great job!
When I finally grasped your first instructions the video had ended. I will play it back a few dozen times...Great vid, you´ve got a new subscriber.
This is what I needed! Why is it so damn hard to find information on how to do this 0_0 setting up a home studio soon and need to understand how to control multiple desktop synths from one midi keyboard thankyou!!! ✌️
Thanks for the straight-forward breakdown. So easy to process!
Fantastic, makes it all seems so easily connectable now.
MIDI to music is what USB is to computers! Your videos are fantastic.
I have yet to slave the SP404mk2 to anything, used all the right cables and no go. Seems to be an issue for people - you ever solve it?
Great vid, but I feel like I need to watch it at 1/2 speed lol
Hahahahahahahahahhahahah you made my day. Great vid by the way, but I feel like I need to watch other 8 times lol
I straight up turned on the closed caption and THAT couldn't really keep up! LMFAO
You can play and pause with space-bar btw ;)
So much better than taking this content and desperately trying to reach the 10 minute mark for that ad revenue
Need help ergently I want to controle my ks rack with my korg krome and hear sounds Of kd help or may look at selling ks and don't want to
The best simple explanation for Midi dawless conections on youtube
I started using DAW exactly one year ago and while it has simplified some tasks, I do prefer dawless jamming. Thank you for today's lesson.
Oh really.......just like that you can summarize what a DAW can and can't do after a year of making music?
If you did a deep dive on your software you used you would probably feel overwhelmed pretty quickly. Hybrid setups are the most effective.
Great video, the only disadvantage to a setup like this is that all your gear in the chain has to be powered on... Normally midi-thru ports are not working without powering up.. few exceptions that hardwire midi-in to miti-thru
oh snap. ive have formally surpassed previous incarnations of geekdom, and have entered the midi twilight zone. i actually understood exactly how you chain everything, and even what equipment you are using. i dig the euro synths! im using all native instrument gear, with a couple token pieces of akai pro audio. to be fair and honest, i did learn to program general midi c back in the middle 90s when i was working as an Apple Multimedia developer. Ill also say that todays midi gear is so far beyond what we began with back in the day. general midi was , to paraphrase einstein, spooky from a distance, and we referred to the phenomena as voodoo, as we also used the term scsi voodoo. sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt, hence the name voodoo, and scsi voodoo. crap. i just dated my self. im old as dirt apparently, but kickin out some decent progressive trance, and post industrial groove porn, with a new album scheduled for release towards the end of the year. you my young friend, upon seeing what youre working with, appear to have a bright future, indeed. cheers.
Yes! Thank you for mentioning how "a lot of people expect you to know how to use MIDI right away for whatever reason".
Thanks! That is exactly what I needed to know. Quick and to the point. This is why I like you. I am such a noob about MIDI. My mind glazes over, when it comes up..but it's becoming essential, now that I'm really trying to do a synth rig.
Great video! Not many people bother to explain MIDI. How about a more in-depth video about channels, nrpns and sysex?
Jeff Watkins o god please
@@CallxMexLos I may even do it myself hehe. I'm not as good a presenter as Jade though! But I do have the equipment.
I agree with others about a more in-depth analysis of midi . I most of the manuals they seem to assume you must know what CC , program change etc is and how to use it. I would be good to show same examples using different hardware
I agree, MIDI channels is not such an easy question
What would you recommend for my current setup?
Drum machine: _Behringer RD-9_
Synths: _KORG Microkorg, KORG Minilogue_
DAWless is cool if I were to be performing live at an actual gig, but in my bedroom or living room, I would like to record my performance in DAW (Ableton Live).
I have an audio interface (Behringer UMC202HD) which I think should be enough, but i've also been considering getting a mixer (Mackie ProFX 12v3) to connect the gear to
Until then, should I just plug the Behringer RD-9 and one of the two synths into the preamps of the audio interface via mono TRS cables and record my performance in DAW? Or would that not work like that?
I'm so lost here, but this video makes sense. Just not sure how I'd apply it to my baby setup
Love this video & the drawn diagram was mega cool too. Thank you!
(Oscar loves diagrams. I know this because I'm an online student of his.)
Thanks!
Thank you for this simple quick video! I'm a guitarist who is just getting into synths. Bought a digitakt, and just got a minilogue XD. This was really helpful, thanks!
Great video. Jeff Watkins makes a great point, not many people bother to explain MIDI. thanks for making this
I have been scanning the web and came across this excellent tutorial from you. I just purchased a BOSS RC-300 looper pedal and I own a Casio CT-680, Yamaha PSR-530, Yamaha DJX, and Roland EXR-5. Looking forward to utilizing these with the daisy chain setup.
I'm so jealous of your studio!
Great video ma'am...
Very detailed explanation..
This was my biggest query on synth
Thank you so much,
Keep it up with your music ma'am...
May God bless you n your family
Love from India ...
Stay safe, stay healthy
Do you have a video showing how to start/stop sync and note input OCTATRACK to Mother and mother SYNCING the DFAM up to it all? Settings for Octa and the Mother set up process. Let me watch this again! Hope you have a splendid holiday and you are well!
Thanks for taking the time do this video.
So much knowledge in under 4 minutes - amazing! Keep it up!
You have a dreamy setup. Studio goals. 🥰
2:23 is where i got lost lmao
Me too :D
Great video. It is worth mentioning that you are using midi clock. I used to be confused about the difference between midi clock and midi time code. Midi clock simply transmits simple start, stop, continue and song position commands. A clock "tick" is transmitted 96 times per beat (if I remember correctly).
I like how you set up the volcas along with the pocket operators. Where do you get all those nice stands from?
link to volca stand in the description, by needhamwoodworks.com/
That's a really useful video, I use the daisy chain method but I have been thinking of getting one of the thru boxes
I do as well, but I don't feel a need to get a thru box until I finally get a brain, namely the Novation Circuit.
Omg! I wish you were my neighbor. I’ve recently decided to take all my gear that i have collected over the years and get serious about making music. Trying to organize and hook it all together was driving me insane! I’m so glad to have found your videos! FYI- jealous of all your beautifully organized synths😊
Crazy. Top!!! Thanks from Brazil!!!
Really well explained. I use a DAW but still got all my hardware from back in the day. Hope to get it all plugged in soon.
Thank you for this. Seriously. This was exactly the video I was looking for.
Great vid. And so much great gear!! 🤯
There is genuinely not ONE easy example of how to do this on the entire interwebs. GODAMNIT.
you're rad keep it up buena ondaz
Omg I love your home studio
Wow dope setup, love wjhat you've done with the volcas and P.O.s that rack is sweet!
You are a legend!
Fast and efficient! Love your stuff, thanks.
I barely found out about this but "Ikutaro Kakehashi" founder of "Roland" was a key to the development & collaborator with Dave Smith for the invention of the "MIDI" , they both received an award for the contribution/invention.... Very informative video tho !
Concise and a good pace - well done!
Oh damn. Random discovery, you are very very skilled.
You're too smart for my non-English brain, I'm having to watch this on 1/2 speed (you don't even sound drunk at 1/2 speed btw), but this is the first good video on midi I've found, and I've watched about twenty, so thank you!
That's cause I was full drunk when I made this video lol JK I talk pretty fast, specially when I'm excited- this I know ':) I might make an updated version of this video now that it's been a few years and I've gathered more knowledge on the subject !
@@JAdeWii_ please do! maybe add an explanation for how one controller can be connected to several devices but only trigger one at a time, or wther it's possible to also daisy chain controllers; I would like to have something like the behringerb101 floor board as well as an 88 key keyboard AND a fader controller of some sort controlling my VSTs. Also: I still don't understand what the difference is between mid in/out and midi thru
Thanks for listing equipment!!! I learn in less time with you, than some on RUclips!
Perfect, now to figure out, how to connect my 404mk2 audio with s-1 and mc-101/sh-4d without having a mixer. 😀
Awesome video. Informative and short. Exactly what I needed as a Midi-Noob Thx. :)
that went from 0 to confusing in .00008 seconds ! This is probably good for people with years of experience with MIDI. It doesn't help people just starting out.
Love looking for information on here and finding nice, concise, informative, and to the point videos like these
Thank you!
I think your video is the best I ve seen thank you
I needed this video so bad🙈
This vid is as informative as it is rare. Major props! I have an old rack mount version: The TC Helicon Voiceworks which does have 'in,' 'thru,' and 'out,' options. All I want to do is send it into an old Yamaha synth that has 'in' and 'out' midi. Would I simply run the 'in' and 'thru' cables to the back of the Yamaha? Thx.
wow dude.. you have a dope setup!
You can draw well too! Very informative video. Thank you!
Whaaaat !!!! You Gooo Mija you go!!! Never seen a woman do this !!! Very impressive.
Hola my synth is the Roland Fantom X6 and it’s an old but goody however it has no usb but it has the Midi-dim in/out/thru… I’m using my Behringer Interface to go to my Windows 10 DAW. >>> do I go out of my Fantom.X6 into my In of my Behringer Interface then Look for it in my DAW STUDIO ONE 6.5??? Thank you for your tut and for your help!!!
Brilliant!
so before you brought the key lab into the mix, the octatrack was controlling your set up? When you plugged the keylab into the octa track the key lab became your master?
Thumbsed up and subscribed! Info is just what I needed.
That was fantastic. Thank you.
Very interesting, and some great gear 😊
love ittt thank you :D
Thanks... How about triggering different pattern on multiple midi devices from the brain?
Awesome video! Would love to see more about channels and setting up slave and master clock stuff. Thank you for doing this!
thank you so much, you have saved me time and that's valuable to me :)
I need help! 😃 I have managed to sync my Arturia MicroFreak with my Korg Monologue, Korg Volca Beats, Korg Volca Bass, Korg Volca Keys, Korg Volca FM and Korg Volca Sample. What I am struggling with is to sync my Korg microKORG with my Arturia MicroFreak or my other gear. The Korg microKORG has only MIDI out or in and thru and no clock 3,5mm minijack like my other gear. Do I neet to dig into the menus of both my Korg microKORG and Arturia to sync them?
THANK YOU MA'AM... saved me !!
THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS!!! I'm literally freaking out on how to get mine to work in Cubase.
Nice case for the Volcas and POs.
How does audio get out of all the devices? Like 1 drum machine and 4 synths, do you have to have an interface with 5 trs inputs? Do you chain the output of one to the input of the next so eventually one device is getting the sound from all the others?
Great video! One question, do you need to set the individual slave devices to a certain midi channel in order to get tempo info or does that translate regardless of the midi channel?
You're a good teacher.
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Clear and informative tutorial thanks
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Very helpful.
thank you this video was very helpful ❤️
I really enjoy your videos! Any recommendation for connecting MC707, Deepmind 12D and Korg Volca?
But where does the output cable come from to an amp? The keylab? Each separate synth?
Very well. done...very helpful!....thank you for putting this together!
Loving your new studio setup, especially the volcas and POs box+mixer arrangement. My humble arrangement is sounding worse the more complex I make it. Got problems with mix and individual audio levels (cheap and nasty mixer is probably the culprit) and now I have midi problems. Was using a midi merger box (up to 4in/4out) which is usb powered but it doesn't work properly now. Reverted to simple midi split cables and now I can't have one of my keyboards in it ...ARRGGHH! Think I need to do (yet another : ( } RESET on the whole system. The volca mixer for just the volcas and POs has given me an idea...Thank you ; )
Omg thank you that helps so much. So nice to watch other girls produce too
Really Great ! Short and super efficent ! Thank you,
Thanks, glad it helped!
Good on girl ,you makeour lives much easier ,with your explanation here , even though its a lot to take in ,for a new boy to midi.👌✌👍
Thanks dude!
Great video, thanks very much :)
love the video but it's a little fast for me to follow. but thats cool no worries. i dig your to-the-point style anyway. i have a related question, maybe you can help. i use ableton live and love some of the cool max for live devices. i have a small eurorack setup, plus the moog dfam, subharmonicon, grandmother...semi modular stuff. anyway, i was wondering with that erica synths midi module in conjunction with a usb midi/audio interface plugged into the computer and setup in ableton, if i could basically turn my modular gear into a midi instrument that could be triggered and "played" by these ableton devices. specifically thinkiing of those devices made by Dillon Bastan. would be cool to use these software "devices" to trigger v/oct pitch and envelopes on modular gear, then send the audio back into ableton to record it.
wow!! very clear. really informative. kinda helps... no, not kinda... this really helps take some of the heebie-jeebies out of getting the heck off of the mouse & computer & getting rolling with a hardware rig... which, despite my fears & very limited understanding of things, is exactly what I'm in the middle of doing. so I can't thank you enough for helping me along with vids like this one.
This was so lovely! Do you by chance do any consultancy like if I could hire you for a few hours to help me with a few audio synth routing things in my home studio via Zoom or something?
That was good work Jade, I can't lie tho... baffling. I'm fresh from the MPC DAW realm, and I've just bought my first synth, a Beringer JT 4000, I can't even hook it up to MPC 2 software and have it controlled by my main keyboard.
Careful with the MIDI Solutions Quadra Thru it leaches power from the MIDI port of the device plugged to it's MIDI IN, so if you use it with some devices that also rely on the limited juice supplied over MIDI you'll get some bad behavior. Still it's a nice through box as it doesn't require a wall wart or battery ( just don't get exotic with running an Anatek MIDI Filter ahead of it's MIDI IN or a RetroKits RK-002 on it's MIDI OUTs.) Other MIDI Thru boxes with obligatory wall warts will provide power to their MIDI Out Ports without leaching. As a rule of thumb though if the Thru box is without external power it is leaching power from the MIDI device connected to its MIDI In port and shouldn't be used with any other non-powered MIDI devices. But all that is way more depth than a starter overview should have to cover. Why not use the MIDI Ins on the Volcas? They have an annoying feature that they always receive Start/Stop (MIDI Real Time) messages from the "Brain". Of course if you have a MIDI Filter you can filter out the offending MIDI messages while still allowing MIDI Clock to sync the Volcas, or just use the Clock In ports... but then you lose the ability to trigger the Volcas externally with the sequencer "Brain" which depending on your situation might be more useful than the internal sequencer (ie. Swing on a Volca Bass, Beats, or Keys since it's built in sequencer is missing that feature.) MIDI Outs from things with Keys will send notes and CC# Messages generated internally as well as Clock... where as MIDI Thrus will only pass the exact messages they receive on their MIDI IN unaltered and immediately (except in the case of the Quadra Thru which first leaches a small amount of voltage and then passes the MIDI Messages (minus some small amount of voltage.)
Hi Jade, How could I connect the volca to a midi controller? I have a controller with midi out 3.5 mm? An arturia mini, What cabel do I need? Thanks
A little fast for me being a beginner. Please direct me! I have a Presonus audiobox usb96, Novation mininova, Arturia Beatstep, Arturia MKII MINILAB, and a Behringer rd6 rythm machine. these all connect into a dell optiplex 3020. I've had to unplug the minilab just to get Reaper to work properly. Please help me configure everything so it all works together.