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Thinking of adding a MIDI Patchbay to my setup.
Curious to hear if this would be better avoided when not strictly needed. This because of the added delays (I thought at least a few milliseconds were unavoidable).

Are patchbays simply a tradeoff between convenience & tightness of timing ?

And much difference w.r.t. delays between the various models ?

Roland A-880
Akai ME30P-II
Akai ME30P

Thanks,

Peter

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anonymous Mon, 10/13/2003 - 13:41

Thanks for the response.

#1
Application is to have more possibilities
with the four INs & four OUTs that my present
MIDI-interface of my PC has. Don't have that much
repatching to do, but I can't connect all at once now, especially with a few samplers I'd like to give more MIDI-channels (multitimbr.)

#2
And I must admit that Akai ME30P-II I saw seemed for a OK-price.

So while it'd definitely be convenient, it isn't
absolutely impossible to do things without. But I don't want to get bitten by additional delays.

Since I'm new to these kind of patchbays I was wondering if certain models are regarded as 'better' compared to others. I guess the Roland A-880 is the mother of all MIDI patchbays,
but I assume that's because of it's higher number of inputs and ease of use (?)

Thanks,

Peter

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