Best way to use a laptop natively & send midi to Scope PC?

[MCCY]

I'm using reaper & do most things on a laptop, but I see, I have unbelievale value in my backhand with my scope dektop PC. I'd just combine my old way of working using scope synths & some special things from within scope with my new way of working within reaper on my laptop.

It seems there are quite a few possibilities to send midi to Scope:

1. MidiCable. Problem: I have only one out on my RME babyface, so wouldn't it be better to use
2. MidiOverLan with in best case a free version like MIDIethernet or
3. whole Process via REAPER with
a) reawire?
b) reastream
c) reamote...

I'd like to plug a LAN cable and be able to adress multiple midi ports within scope on my dektop PC from my laptop. That would be the easiest way.
Is there a simple solution?
+ why not using the cpu horsepower of the desktop? If possible also audiostreaming from one PC to the other or networking VSTs...

Any experiences?

Martin

[jksuperstar]

I find this works well (not only is it a real-time protocol for MIDI over ethernet, it is the standard that apple uses, so you can use it to talk with MACs and iOS devices).

http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/rtpMIDI.html

[MCCY]

Looks great. Hope I'll find the time to test it tomorrow!
Thanks!

[MCCY]

For me EthernetMidi worked best so far.

Others all have latency problems. Is there something I did wrong? I'd love to use REAstream, which works perfectly from within reaper projects, but... also latency issues with midi. I wonder why EthernetMidi is so much much better.

[MCCY]

With my scope computer & main laptop everything works great. Wow. That's whole new possibilities combining best of both worlds.
I now tested with reastream, but I bet rtpmidi would work also. With reastream it's so simple to just have a second reaper open on scope PC which sends midi to the scope windows midi. Latency feels very good this way.

[jksuperstar]

That's great to know! Thanks for putting all the info here about your experiences.

[MCCY]

I'm so happy with that! It's just a hughe Synthesizer extension connected with one cable. Finally I could also take advantage of at least one ADAT in for audiostreams (laptop has RME babyface connected) but my main point is: Quick and sponanious connectivity & workflow. O.K. I'd like to own XITE of course whicht would be even better/perfect, but It makes no sense for me investing that money. A new powerfull desktop PC would not be my solution also.
It reminds me a bit of the old 1990s days, when working with 8track analog and just being creative with what you have.

I had 8 sequencer ins in SCOPE & 8 X REAstream numered and routed from 1-8 connected to 8 synthesizers routed to mixer in Scope. What an easy setup!!! I always spent hours creating SCOPE projects. For each song a new complex one. I guess those days are over now & economical thinking will lead to more fun and productivity.

Last & hardest problem was, that WIN7 could not make lan-adapter-settings visible. What a mess!!!! Finally I installed the most actual lan driver & problem dissappeared. I'm not a network expert at all, but when everything works as it should it's really easy to connect.

For now I don't know, how I will record that Scope - synth - tracks. Maybe at the end of the project on the scope PC in one multitrack session & than copying those wavs to the main Laptop!?

In the next days I guess I will do some latency tests, but I guess in the end there will be problems only in big projects when the computer becomes slower anyway.

[jksuperstar]

+1! Plus scope 6 will have copperlan support built in.