Midi advice

[madddkParticipant]

Hey guys,

I’m maximise the 4 track sequence availability of my newly acquired Zaquencer.

Im trying to figure out if this would work before actually making a midi interface purchase.

Current Setup
Synth 1 (midi In)
Synth 2 (midi In)
Synth 3 (midi In & midi through)
Drum machine (midi In)

If I buy a 4in x 4out midi interface would I be able to do:
MIDI out from zaquencer to midi in of the midi interface so that the signal of the zaquencer goes to the 4 outs of the midi interface leading to the the 4 hardware?

That would i guess allow me to also use another IN of the midi 4×4 interface to control the 4 synths with my MIDI keyboard (midi In/midi through/usb).

The midi in of the zaquencer is taken by the soundcard of my laptop which is used to send a clock
from ableton to zaquencer

thanks for your time

[ChristianKeymaster]

Hi madddk,
sorry for the late reply.
In theory what you describe should be possible, but it strongly depends on the capabilities of th Midi interface. It has to have a through/merge functionality.

I would recommend a standard Midi thru box, but these usually only have 1 input, which is not enough in your case.

Do you have a certain midi interface in mind?

[madddkParticipant]

Thank you for the reply Christian,

I’m thinking of the Miditech Midiface 4×4

http://miditech.de/userfiles/manuals/Midiface_4x4_DEU_ENG.pdf

Ultimately I would like to sequence and send midi to the hardware concurrently from both the Zaquencer and Ableton as well as play them via a midi keyboard.

Cheers for the help

[madddkParticipant]

just to make why i use both ableton and zaquencer a bit more clear,

The actual sequencing in terms of notes inputted is sometimes not from the zaquencer but from ableton. In this cases I use the zaquencer to run a sequence that just sends Control Change messages to create more rhythmically/polyrhythmically rich pattern.

[ChristianKeymaster]

I just had a look at the manual. It doesn´t look like the interface itselfe has through/merge functionality. You should be able to do the routing through Ableton though. I´m not sure about the latencies, but my guess is it should be fine. Can you purchase with money-back option, just in case?

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