Later on –- you’ll find uses for them, I promise! Troublesome elements can be filtered in the Event Processor.Īdditionally, don’t duplicate events "just in case they’re needed." Save the extra Settings for One of the worst of all is PolyphonicĪftertouch, which can clog the entire bandwidth with the data from a single instrument! All of these Sent by the sequencer, and the clock data is simply being thrown away. Sequencer clock data is another area to watch: In many cases, the slave devices are reacting to the MIDI notes Aftertouch is a notorious hog of MIDI bandwidth, often without being used at the receiving end. How can you help? Take a look at the kinds of data that your gear is sending, and whether you’re using it or Sometimes has more serious consequences that a pop or click. And unlike audio information, lost MIDI data Things out, there’s always a chance to throw out the wrong item. The Event Processor uses built-in algorithms to try to thin the data in these cases, but anytime we throw Even if theĮvent Processor can keep up with the task of duplicating the notes, they’re being stockpiled faster than MIDI If you’re playing 64th notes on Channelġ, and the Event Processor is copying each note to Channel 2-16, well, something’s got to give. Processor can’t be offloaded any faster than 3,125 bytes per second. ‘drainage’ issues under severe cases, the real culprit is usually MIDI itself. Although the Event Processor itself can have The ability to fill it, or ‘sink’ is going to overflow. The ability to empty the ‘pipe’ has to match Pouring buckets of water into a sink with a little drain pipe. The Event Processor is programmed to map several output commands for each one it receives, it’s kind of like The one thing that can bring the Event Processor to its MIDI ‘knees,’ sooner or later, is data duplication. Handle this better than others it’s just something to be aware of. Dropping Note On messages isn’t so bad, especially when there areĭozens of them happening at the same time, but missing Note Off messages are big trouble. However, the MIDI keyboard may also enter the picture by dropping note information if it The Event Processor itself is immune to failure due to fully loaded MIDI bandwidth it’s happy to send 31,250īits per second. Keep this in mind when you consider sending a merge of 4-5 MIDI outputs to one cable, and "let Can an average PC/Mac sequencer and an 8x8 MIDI interface up the ante? Youīetcha.
Can Joey DeFrancesco or Chester Thompson play faster than one note per millisecond for Struck and released in a very short time, even though the average notes per second throughout the song might Hammond Organ techniques like "smears" and "palm glisses" -– require that a lot of notes be
Like an awful lot of time to send MIDI, but the figure can be deceiving. MIDI runs at 31.25Kbit/sec., which works out to roughly 1,000 average MIDI commands per second. Here’s a brief guide to understand the rules that the Event Processor can’t break. Used outside the rules, though, it can sometimes make things very unpredictable. Had more horsepower than you ever dreamed possible? It was much easier to get from Point A to Point B it wasĪlso much easier to end up in a ditch! Used within its designed intentions, the Event Processor can’t help but Did you ever get behind the wheel of a really powerful car or motorbike –- one that OK, by now you’ve probably figured out that there’s nothing MIDI that the Event Processor can’t deal with,