- #AKAI MIDI PATCHBAY EXPRESSION GENERATOR#
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In addition, onboard octave up and down controls allow players to access the entire melodic range play bass lines, piano harmony, solo leads and much more.
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Plus, MPK249 is optimized to interface directly with your Mac or PC with USB power and plug-and-play connectivity.Įquipped with 49 semi-weighted, full-size keys and a premium piano-style keyboard for unprecedented response and natural feel, each key is velocity-sensitive and outfitted with aftertouch for dynamic, expressive performances and recordings. There are three available banks of knobs, faders, and switches for a total of 24 each, as well as 64 pads accessible via four pad banks. The MPK249 features 49 semi-weighted keys with aftertouch, 8 assignable knobs, faders, and switches, 16 MPC-style pads with RGB feedback, and onboard transport buttons.
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I would never trust USB for Midi syncing the gear, so I have a Expert Sleepers USAMO to send Midi from the DAW to the gear.Engineered to be an all-in-one controller solution, the AKAI Professional MPK249 is a performance pad and keyboard controller that combines deep software integration, enhanced workflow, and core technologies from the iconic line of MPC workstations. I was considering using my old MotU 828 mkII for 8 additional audio inputs via ADAT(and configured in CueMix), but I kept hearing you have to use specially built Apogee or Proco RG59 cables for sync, so I never got around to trying it. I don't use the gear that often though, so most of the time I just send ASIO4ALL to the motherboard's optical audio output, and I use a Rega DAC for the converters.
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The Focusrite's 8 outputs go to the same 16 channel mixer through a Neutrik patchbay, because I have a few analogue effects I can run DAW tracks through, plus some monosynth filter inputs.
DIN Midi out goes to an old Kawai MAV8 midi patchbay.Īll the gear connects to the inputs of a Focusrite 18i20, with two of the inputs connected to a 16 channel mixer's Main outs and the other six for individual instruments, themselves coming from the mixer's Direct outs. If I'd want something higher end, I would get the new RME Fireface UCX 2, which has some nice things: it can work standalone, it can multitrack record standalone and it's a completely flexible digital mixer (even standalone) disguised as an audio interface.īoth of my Midi controllers have both USB and Midi, which I never use simultaneously, so USB is isolated to DAW use only. I like this setup a lot, as I can change what audio interface I use (mixer or MODX) just by selecting it in Nuendo, without the need to change cables AND it works standalone (no computer) as well.įor this type of setup I feel an USB mixer is a better tool than an audio interface. So when I want to record it, I can set it as the audio interface in Nuendo, but the actual audio will still go out of the MODX into the Mixer. The MODX is also connected to the computer via USB, as it has an audio interface as well.
#AKAI MIDI PATCHBAY EXPRESSION GENERATOR#
(I use this for piano tutorials, using the MODX as the tone generator instead of having to fire up the computer, Nuendo and some VSTi). So I can play the MODX without the need to have the computer on.Ī Studiologic SL73 MIDI controller is also connected to the MODX via DIN MIDI and to the computer via USB. If it's on, the audio coming from the computer via USB is just part of the mix going to the monitors. The mixer does it's job no matter if the computer is on or off. The MODX stereo out is fed into the mixer. This is the main audio interface for my computer (I like it because it has 4-in/4-out audio channels as opposed to just stereo mix as is the case with most entry level USB mixers). The "audio hub" for me is an entry-level USB analog mixer (Allen & Heath ZEDi 10). I have one hardware synth only (a MODX), I might get another one at some moment in the future but I won't have a "synth collection" any time soon. Even if I was doing an all-hardware jam (not bloody likely) sooner or later I'd want to record something into the DAW, so.
I could just launch AudioMidi Setup and hard-route ports to each other for MIDI but I just launch the DAW cause I don't mind. This means that I must use the CueMix function on the MOTU setup in order to hear any hardware synths, so, yes, the computer must be on in order to hear audio, and I must launch the DAW to route MIDI from the master keyboard to any HW synths. Eventide H-9000 is plugged into ADAT ports on the MOTU rig for 4x stereo i/o.
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I use USB-MIDI on a big honkin' 13-port hub for more modern gadgets like Sensel Morph, Akai MPD, fader controllers, etc.Īll audio is in a patch bay that normals four stereo HW synth outputs to the first 8 analog inputs on my MOTU 1248, with the ability to route others at will, or patch them to Avalon DI boxes and other hardware outboard. MIDI input 1 comes from my master keyboard, MIDI output 1 goes to my VideoSync computer. Still going strong with Unitor8mk2 interfaces for 5-pin MIDI to seven hardware synths.
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