Small, cheap, midi sequencer
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- KVRer
- 3 posts since 13 Sep, 2007
I will be curious to see how it works out for you. Have not ruled one out myself. One other thing a thought of was the akai mpc series. Check out the mpc500. It will cost you around $700. Has a big time sequencer on it.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 17 Dec, 2006
Yeah I was considering the Akai stuff .. again there is no foot switch jack for the drummer to start the sequence. There might be something in the MIDI implementation to start a song with MIDI and then I could buy one of those MIDI solutions boxes that turns a foot switch into a midi command, but that's another $150 to drop 
I'll let you guys know how the EMU works out. It just seems like it's way more than I need with on-board sounds and all. Literally the only thing I'll be using it for is to play sequences that I created in Cubase on my computer!!
I'll let you guys know how the EMU works out. It just seems like it's way more than I need with on-board sounds and all. Literally the only thing I'll be using it for is to play sequences that I created in Cubase on my computer!!-
- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 6 Dec, 2003 from Mission Control
CL had a brother MD30 for sale cheap. $10-30?? on ebay. It has a disk drive and chain play. I wouldn't want to use it to sequence with but it's a terrific midi file player.
Might want to look for the Brother MD40, MD100 and the Alesis Datadisk too.
Might want to look for the Brother MD40, MD100 and the Alesis Datadisk too.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 17 Dec, 2006
what are the md30, md40 and md100 ... i'm pretty good at google, but I just tried doing web searches for 10 minutes and couldn't find anything. Link me please. Thanks!
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 6 Dec, 2003 from Mission Control
Ooops my fault "MDI" - 30jamison100 wrote:what are the md30, md40 and md100 ... i'm pretty good at google, but I just tried doing web searches for 10 minutes and couldn't find anything. Link me please. Thanks!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Brother-MDI-30-MIDI ... dZViewItem
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 6 Dec, 2003 from Mission Control
That not going to help find much info on the net tho.
From memory...
Basically what you would do is record a midi performance/song live (set to external clock) into the MDI then save it to disk. A disk can hold 30 songs of about 14000 notes each. Manual play is any 1 of 30.
Chain play will play songs 1-30 in order. Changing the order is not easy, basically you'd have to rerecord them in the order you wanted. However it's easy to keep several disks with different sets. Disk access is fast.
There's no remote input unless you want to hard wire some foot switches to the pc board. You can not read or write to the DD floppy's except on the MDI.
You can make a HD floppy DD by covering the extra hole.
You can have more than 30 songs if you want to combine several songs into one. One song can be an entire set if you can do it in 14000 notes.
It's actually a 2 track midi sequencer. It has a "record" track and a "merge track" but I wouldn't want to use it like that.
From memory...
Basically what you would do is record a midi performance/song live (set to external clock) into the MDI then save it to disk. A disk can hold 30 songs of about 14000 notes each. Manual play is any 1 of 30.
Chain play will play songs 1-30 in order. Changing the order is not easy, basically you'd have to rerecord them in the order you wanted. However it's easy to keep several disks with different sets. Disk access is fast.
There's no remote input unless you want to hard wire some foot switches to the pc board. You can not read or write to the DD floppy's except on the MDI.
You can make a HD floppy DD by covering the extra hole.
You can have more than 30 songs if you want to combine several songs into one. One song can be an entire set if you can do it in 14000 notes.
It's actually a 2 track midi sequencer. It has a "record" track and a "merge track" but I wouldn't want to use it like that.
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 6 Dec, 2003 from Mission Control
I forgot....stuff.
You can rearrange sets easily. You just load the files and save them to another disk in the order you want.. duh!
These things are great for sysex. Say you had a matrix6 or some other midi device that transfers banks in sysex (or any sysex for that matter) then you can have save 30 banks on a disk. Not quite MidiQuest but it's a pretty cool librarian too.
Recording midi live is not as bad as I made out... It's actually pretty cool to just flip a switch and record whatever you want without thinking about it very much. Editing is prehistoric so it's more like recording to tape than midi. The flip side of that is that you can always transfer the song to any sequencer that will lock to an external clock and edit all you want.
These are dead simple.. The manual was only 20 pages folded in half.
I think they are cool... YMMV
You can rearrange sets easily. You just load the files and save them to another disk in the order you want.. duh!
These things are great for sysex. Say you had a matrix6 or some other midi device that transfers banks in sysex (or any sysex for that matter) then you can have save 30 banks on a disk. Not quite MidiQuest but it's a pretty cool librarian too.
Recording midi live is not as bad as I made out... It's actually pretty cool to just flip a switch and record whatever you want without thinking about it very much. Editing is prehistoric so it's more like recording to tape than midi. The flip side of that is that you can always transfer the song to any sequencer that will lock to an external clock and edit all you want.
These are dead simple.. The manual was only 20 pages folded in half.
I think they are cool... YMMV
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 6 Dec, 2003 from Mission Control
I heard these were good but the synth is a little cheesy these days.
Roland MT300 Midi Music - Sold at $175
http://cgi.ebay.com/Roland-MT300-Midi-M ... dZViewItem
ROLAND SD-35 $99.00
http://www.musicgoround.com/gear/invent ... ?id=553430
Check this out...
Roland MT90SM $355.06
http://www.fullcompass.com/product/237528.html
I remember a 1/2 rack Roland midi disk but I can't remember the model number.. Maybe it will come to me.
Roland MT300 Midi Music - Sold at $175
http://cgi.ebay.com/Roland-MT300-Midi-M ... dZViewItem
ROLAND SD-35 $99.00
http://www.musicgoround.com/gear/invent ... ?id=553430
Check this out...
Roland MT90SM $355.06
http://www.fullcompass.com/product/237528.html
I remember a 1/2 rack Roland midi disk but I can't remember the model number.. Maybe it will come to me.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 25 posts since 17 Dec, 2006
The MT300 seems cool ... None of my old Roland gear hasn't broken yet, so that's a benefit to Roland gear. I don't know. I guess I'm just really down on the idea of having a floppy drive involved in my modern setup. I guess that's why I ended up dropping the $400 on the E-MU XL-7. I'll definitely go back to all these suggestions if the XL-7 doesn't work out. Thanks!
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- KVRAF
- 9528 posts since 6 Oct, 2004
Why not just get a keyboard like Yamaha mm6 that has a usb port for usb memory stick, and call 200+ of your songs from there, would sounds like Yamaha XG and the included Motif sounds be good enough for your bands clientel? (Its manual convinces me there's a lot of bang for the buck in an mm6, demo videos online etc)jamison100 wrote:The MT300 seems cool ... None of my old Roland gear hasn't broken yet, so that's a benefit to Roland gear. I don't know. I guess I'm just really down on the idea of having a floppy drive involved in my modern setup. I guess that's why I ended up dropping the $400 on the E-MU XL-7. I'll definitely go back to all these suggestions if the XL-7 doesn't work out. Thanks!