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Is it possible to control the X50 with another synth?
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:24 am
by The Magic Hoof
I have a question that may seem a bit odd, but is there any way to kind of use another midi controller to use the patches on the X50? I was thinking of somehow just plugging in a midi controller board directly to the X50 and using it like that, but I'm not sure if that's possible. The reason for this is that, of course, the X50 has a cheap board and I'll be getting something with weighted keys in the future and it'd be nice to use the X50 in real-time instead of recording a midi with another board and then having it sent back to the X50.
Re: Is it possible to control the X50 with another synth?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:51 pm
by rob.ocelot
The Magic Hoof wrote:I have a question that may seem a bit odd, but is there any way to kind of use another midi controller to use the patches on the X50? I was thinking of somehow just plugging in a midi controller board directly to the X50 and using it like that, but I'm not sure if that's possible. The reason for this is that, of course, the X50 has a cheap board and I'll be getting something with weighted keys in the future and it'd be nice to use the X50 in real-time instead of recording a midi with another board and then having it sent back to the X50.
You can definitely do that. I have an Alesis Micron and use it to control the Micro-X by MIDI -- The X-50 will behave exactly the same way. All you need to do is connect a MIDI cable from the "Out" port of the controller to the "In" port of the X-50.
I've even set the Micro-X and Micron to be different parts of the full piano keyboard so I can get a nice range of keys.
If you have a MIDI controller with knobs like Novation X-station or a purely knob/slider MIDI controller like a Kenton Control Freak I'm not sure how the knobs are mapped so it might take some tweaking to get it so that you don't have to reach over to the Micro-X/X-50 to change a parameter.