nick@LFCS.ED.AC.UK (Nick Rothwell) (02/20/90)
> Nick knows about it a lot more than a do. I am sure he can > tell us all about it, won't you Nick ? Yeah, I suppose so.... :-) MIDI Patchbay, 6 IN, 8 OUT; you dial up patches to connect each output into any one of the inputs. In addition, there are two MIDI processors into which you can connect the inputs and outputs. The patchbay doesn't do general MIDI merging (in fact, all it does is make electrical connections between the ports), but the processors can, in that you can refer to the merged output of the two processors. Each processor can do MIDI-processor-type things, like filtering of various kinds of data, (chromatic) transposition, velocity switching, channel mapping, MIDI echo/delays, and so on. The processors do this dynamic filtering thing to avoid MIDI congestion (or so the manual claims, though I don't have my WX7 yet so I haven't tried it). You can send the MX-8 MIDI patch changes to adopt new configurations, but you have to have a designated processor listening on the input port which receives the patch change. When it changes patch, the MX-8 can be programmed to send up to 8 further patch changes for each of its output ports. There's also a panic button which sends All Notes Off, Pitchbend Reset, and (if held) cycles through all the Note-off commands on all the outputs. Full SysEx details in the manual, cor blimey. There you have it. It's not exactly an all-singing all-dancing MIDI processor, and we'll probably need something more powerful for live use (like the MidiTemp PMM-88 unit which does more and has a remote control panel), but I got it cheap, 2nd-hand, from someone in the US, and it does the job. Nick.