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Hi,
I have a Pulsar2 and the newly offered scope-SRB in my system. Pulsar is equiped with a classic-20 IO plate, which has one set of midi (in-thru-out) ports. I'm in need of an extra set of those, or at least an extra midi-in that I can use in my SFP environment.
Can I just buy another IO-plate and mount it on the scope? Or will I have to buy an (USB-)midi port and route the midi through Logic into the SFP routing-window (via sequencer_midi_in)?
Because of latencies-issues I prefer adding an extra IO-plate if possible. If the extra plate is possible, will I be able to use the extra SPDIF i/o as well?
Let me hear your thoughts please
Rob

the extra IOs of the plate will be addressable, but it's not quite clear what's intended with the midi routing.
Do you think of more external keyboards / devices, or does this apply to virtual midi routing between sequencer and pulsar ?

cheers, Tom

Tom, the idea of adding an extra port is all about adding midi-devices (keyboard, controller) that do not have a midi in/thru.
I know that normally midi-devices are chained but my controller and my keyboard don't have that possibility.
When adding an extra io-plate, will that plate have the same ULLI and Sample-rate settings?
Rob

your boards are 2nd generation, so they'll have the low ULLI settings.
Dunno about different samplerates on both boards, might be difficult to sync while driven by one software, but that's pure speculation by be.
Midi through-ing actually causes a 5 ms delay per 'in-through-stage' so an additional interface might apply better anyway.
But choice are complicated, possibly even one of those elcheapo 2-in-4-out parallelport boxes is enough (some not working under 2k or XP). Take care of merging capabilities, if you plan to include external controllers.

cheers, Tom

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: astroman on 2002-06-27 09:32 ]</font>

Thanx Tom, I did some checking on them el-cheapo boxes and found the Emagic MT-4 which has patching or routing capabilities as well. Seems the perfect thing to have and costs half of the classic IO plate. Thanks again,
Rob

Depending on the sequencer you use, AMT (EMagic->Logic) or Midex (Steinberg->Cubase) may offer great advantages on his concurrent collegue...
Check their respective websites for more info.