overcoming the MIDI note no. limitation

I tried sending this out before, but Outlook Express has been messing about
with my Mac, so I'm not sure if it went.

To follow up on my posts re. the MIDI note no. limitation that existsin many
instruments, including Kurzweil's K2xxx series, E-mu E series, Ensoniq ASR &
ZR76, Akai S5000 & S6000, etc. These machines are limited in the range of
MIDI notes they respond to. The Ensoniqs & E-mu E series for example respond
to only 76 MIDI notes.

The most obvious solution would be to use more than one channel.Also obvious
is that this would complicate our already complicated microtonal sequencing
efforts. So, what we need is a way to sequence using all 128 notes, & have
an external device split the stream into different channels, based on MIDI
note number.

Devices :

Midi Solutions Router US$90 at http://www.zzounds.com
This is programmed by sending it SysEx & internally stores 10 settings,
which means u set up splits for upto 10 incoming channels going out to 20
channels. yes it has 2 MIDI outs.
http://www.midisolutions.com/
http://www.midisolutions.com/prodrte.htm

Digital Music Corp's MX-8 MIDI Patchbay/Processor @US$350.00 list price.
http://www.voodoolab.com/patchbay.html

- drew

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>To follow up on my posts re. the MIDI note no. limitation that existsin many
>instruments, including Kurzweil's K2xxx series, E-mu E series, Ensoniq ASR &
>ZR76, Akai S5000 & S6000, etc. These machines are limited in the range of
>MIDI notes they respond to.

>The Ensoniqs & E-mu E series for example respond to only 76 MIDI notes.

What do you mean with that... Do you mean polyphony? I have a E4X and it I
am sure it responds to more then 76 notes ( it should respond to 128 notes
).Or do you mean voices?

hendrik

>>To follow up on my posts re. the MIDI note no. limitation that existsin many
>>instruments, including Kurzweil's K2xxx series, E-mu E series, Ensoniq ASR &
>>ZR76, Akai S5000 & S6000, etc. These machines are limited in the range of
>>MIDI notes they respond to.
>
>
>>The Ensoniqs & E-mu E series for example respond to only 76 MIDI notes.
>
> What do you mean with that... Do you mean polyphony? I have a E4X and it I
> am sure it responds to more then 76 notes ( it should respond to 128 notes
> ).Or do you mean voices?
>
> hendrik
HI Hendrik, no, not polyphony. I posted some in some detail regarding this a
few digest ago : No.406 to be precise. And I meant the ESI series, not the E
series (sorry !). Anyway, I'm refering to their response to actual MIDI note
numbers, as stated in the MIDI implementation chart.

For example : The ESI series has a tuning resolution of 1 cent (+/- 100
cents), but only responds to MIDI note no.s 21-108, just 76 notes ! This is
identical to the ENsoniq ASR, ZR, & probably MR series.

The E-mu E-series respond to all 128 MODI not numbers (0-127), but have a
tuning resolution of only 1.56 cents (1/64 of a semitone).

- drew

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