R3 midi control

[theshinenz]

Hi,

Just bought an r3 and love its sound.

I have a question regarding midi control though. I am wanting to know if it's possible to use both midi in and midi out on the r3 if I make it a slave. What I was hoping for was that I could set a midi sending channel different from receiving as I have bought a roland fa-08 with weighted action, so I want to play the r3 from its own key bed and also sometimes play sounds from the FA from the r3 key bed for example lead sounds. I would also like the r3 to sync to the fa midi clock if possible.

Cheers
Scott

[analoguekid]

Hi,

Just bought an r3 and love its sound.

I have a question regarding midi control though. I am wanting to know if it's possible to use both midi in and midi out on the r3 if I make it a slave. What I was hoping for was that I could set a midi sending channel different from receiving as I have bought a roland fa-08 with weighted action, so I want to play the r3 from its own key bed and also sometimes play sounds from the FA from the r3 key bed for example lead sounds. I would also like the r3 to sync to the fa midi clock if possible.

Cheers
Scott

This may

I am not sure about this but historically with MIDI if two synths are connected via the master's out to the slave's in you will be able to play sounds from the master at the same time as sounds in the slave, when you play the slave only that's all you will hear. When you connect the two at the same time via the other two MIDI ports the rolls are reversed, but you cant loose the connectivity of the other and make the one sound and the other not you would have to manually change the send or receive channel of one of the synths. If you do this you would loose the MIDI clock signals from whichever is acting as the master at that time, and without another device present I don't think there is any way around this.

You can however use an external unit of some sort that will send clock data but not, note data, in this instance I use a very old XRi systems SMPTE syncronizer, this allows me to send clock data from the R3 to this box, then from out of the box to an external sequencer, other synths etc. this then allows the R3 to be on another send channel so that when its played it doesn't send note data to everything else.

I am sure someone on here will offer you a better solution than mine, my techie is firmly fixed in the 80T's LOL

[OpAmp]

Hi,

Not sure it is going to work, but you may give it a try... And it will probably have limitations...

* Configure the R3 to use MIDI In (Ext MIDI) as clock source
* Configure the Fantom to send the MIDI clock
* Choose a different global MIDI channel for both the R3 and the Fantom
* Connect now the Fantom and R3 twice with each other using MIDI.

As clock messages are channel independent, the R3 will sync to the Fantom. As they have both different MIDI channels, note events from one will not sound on the other. Now if you want to control the Fantom from your R3 keybed, you'll need to create on the Fantom a combi or something like that where you configure the lead part to listen to the Global channel of the R3 iso the one of the Fantom. At the moment you want to play like that, dial in that combi on the Fantom.

In theory it should work... And beware of MIDI loops (but should be ok, given different channels).

Have fun!

[theshinenz]

thanks guys.... will try this on the weekend