Re: Help needed w/echoplex ARRAY

[Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin@imt.net>]

excellent also.  I'll see what todd wants to do.  I dont' know if the 
other product suggest is smoke/mirrors for our app or if it's real 
expensive but if he goes with the edp I'll keep this advise around.  
Yeah I figured doing the brother sync for the stereo pairs.  The midi 
out to in ...I guess means that each unit generates a sync signal to the 
out that reflects what's coming in which is good.  We'll get back to it 
soon and try this while I have the units here in any case. -Bob

Kim Flint wrote:

> At 02:10 AM 1/5/2007, Bob Weigel wrote:
>
>> I need to get this setup finished for a client who wants to run 8 
>> echoplexes with 4 stereo sync'd channels basically.
>>
>> I think what is happening is..we're going to need some midi filtering 
>> unless there is some way I'm missing to internally filter the start 
>> recording messages :-).  Because right now, when one starts, they all 
>> start or some such thing.
>
>
> Put each pair on a different midi channel. Connect the two units in 
> each pair together with BrotherSync.
>
> Connect the midi from Out to In of each Echoplex. Don't use the midi 
> thru, the intelligent MIDIpipe feature in the Echoplex prevents 
> unnecessary commands from getting piled up. Thru isn't really needed.
>
> MIDI clock is global so they will still all get clock from the master 
> pair. the MIDIpipe feature of the Echoplex will filter out extra 
> StartSong messages and such. Note that using MIDI sync forces you to 
> have one pair always be the master, so you start loops there and the 
> downstream units will get the sync.
>
> We designed the Echoplex to support this sort of use, it should work ok.
>
> There are other ways to sync as well. For example all the units could 
> be connected with BrotherSync, which allows any of them to set the 
> tempo for the others. This is especially nice for group or band 
> situations.
>
> kim
>
>
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