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cappy2112
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Has anyone tried MidiLan with a Nord Modular? |
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Has anyone tried MidiLan with the Nord Modular?
http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm
I'm wodnering if it can handle the Nord's control port |
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Don't know, but out of curiousity I did try it long ago with my own net MIDI thingy. It was unusable, but sometimes the editor would see the synth for a while.
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cappy2112
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:27 am Post subject:
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | Don't know, but out of curiousity I did try it long ago with my own net MIDI thingy. It was unusable, but sometimes the editor would see the synth for a while. |
Do you remember how long ago- roughly?
I'm wondering if the version you tried was buggy and if it's been improved since then. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:42 am Post subject:
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Do you remember how long ago- roughly?
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I tried to explain that I was not using MidiLan but my own thingy (net MIDI). And that one was not buggy, its the NM stuff being picky on timing, so probably remoting the editor from the synth is not going to work for any MIDI over ethernet product.
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likely, yes. In the bad old days some MIDI products couldn't even take it. It would have been nicer if the nord would have tried giving up on some luxuries like those leds before quitting outright. It's not rocket sience and the editor doesn't realy urgently need to be that fast. as far as I'm concerned most of the time it could be half a second late and it'd still be fine.
Hmmm, now that I think of it; disabeling those leds in the editor might aleviate some of the tention? Or is that just a matter of how it's displayed and not something that affects the actual communication? Realy fast MIDI ports and lots of priority for the tcpip stuff? Avoiding any product/protocol that involves (larger) buffers?
All other solutions I can think of fit in the "if you are going to do that you might as well spend your time on a entirely new system" category.
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Kassen, right now there is some fine jazz on radio.electro-music.com , that distracts me 
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All other solutions I can think of fit in the "if you are going to do that you might as well spend your time on a entirely new system" category. |
It's not a speed issue at all. It's a computer vs gear location issue. |
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Ok, to come back on this, with less distraction going on.
The Clavia protocol just seems to be not very robust. When some data is lost it can't be recovered. Whatever will make it loose data will give that result.
This can be MIDI drivers that can't handle the amount of data, but it can also be time. I didn't go into the details of this particular protocol very much, but from experience I know that thing s that seem reasonable on a link without delays may completely fail when some delay is introduced.
It is not easy to make communications protocols, and every naive implementation of flow control will make the prortocol perform wose, not better. The Clavia protocol has every sign of naively implemented flow control. But again, I didn't go into the details so I can't be sure.
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| cappy2112 wrote: | | Quote: |
All other solutions I can think of fit in the "if you are going to do that you might as well spend your time on a entirely new system" category. |
It's not a speed issue at all. It's a computer vs gear location issue. |
He he he, yeah, that's true too, but I think I get a point as well.
I asumed it worked like this; the PC sends something to the NM then the NM has to do something with that, then reply. If there is no reply the PC may try again or start complaining it can't feel the NM anymore.
Clearly a extra LAN cable won't speed the process up and it may slow it down. I figured that it might have slowed it down over the "complain" treshold wich I asumed to be a bit on the low side.
Lan cables tend to believe that what we want is getting data from here to there as fast as possible without bothering possible other uses of the cable and without caring how steady this stream is. If this data has to be a steady steam people use buffers (like in Winamp to listen to internet radio) To me that kinda means the "gear location" issue and the speed one are the same at their core here.
Makes sense? I think this would be a nice moment to start wondering how large the "gear /computer distance" is. Are we talking meters or continents here? For meters I'd start thinking about longer MIDI cables instead...
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| Kassen wrote: | | cappy2112 wrote: | | Quote: |
All other solutions I can think of fit in the "if you are going to do that you might as well spend your time on a entirely new system" category. |
It's not a speed issue at all. It's a computer vs gear location issue. |
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The computer I want to use is on the other side of the room from the gear. But there is a computer on that side of the room, it's just very slow, and there's no room for me to put two computers there. Eventually that one will get replaced. Midi is extremly slow compaired to etherenet speeds, so there shouldn't be any delays thru the ethernet cable or using that midilan driver.
I can run one ethernet cable from computer to computer and send midi over it to my midi patc bay, which can then send it to all the synths, instead of having to run four 15 foot midi cables connected to 4 more 15 foot midi cables to talk to the NM (2 for control, to for Midi). |
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| How are you planning on routing the midi from LAN out the midi patchbay? How is this done? What midi patchbay cappy? Or is it simply that the MIDIoverLAN app routes the LAN out to the patchbay and vice versa? |
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| Jason wrote: | | How are you planning on routing the midi from LAN out the midi patchbay? How is this done? What midi patchbay cappy? Or is it simply that the MIDIoverLAN app routes the LAN out to the patchbay and vice versa? |
with MidiYokewww.midiox.com
I have a Digital Music MX8- the antichrist of all midi patch bays.
I'm looking for another patchbay, which doesnt require being connected to a comptuer to function.
I didn't like the Edirol series because some of the cables are on the front, and it only has like 10 presets. There used to be bigger selections of patchbays many years ago, now there are so many of the computer-connected ones. |
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that is so freaking funny cappy , I as well have a eyesore of a MX8....
Yes better than nothing , but sounds like we both need to be updated with a real patchbay... Thanks for info. |
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cappy2112
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| Jason wrote: | that is so freaking funny cappy , I as well have a eyesore of a MX8....
Yes better than nothing , but sounds like we both need to be updated with a real patchbay... Thanks for info. |
You gotta try out the demo for Timewarp2600
I finally have a machine powrfull enough to play it now.
Tt sounds so friggin good. |
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