Alyseum has announced that the AL-88c, a compact version of the AL-88 8 In / 8 Out MIDI Interface, will be available at the end of March, 2014. Normal price is 165.00€ (without VAT, taxes, transport) but you can pre-order with a 10% discount now.
Here's what they say: "Since the beginning, the musicians asking an AL-88 at an affordable price. Well, that's done, the AL-88c is there (c for compact). As her big brother, exactly the same performance for the MIDI. For the rest, see the picture. Of course, the AL-88 is still available for professional users."
An AL-88c allows you to connect 8 MIDI In and 8 MIDI Out ports, simply and in a flexible way to patch, remap, filter and merge MIDI flows on a fine channel basis. Expandable by multiples of 2 or 8 MIDI I/O ports to create a unique patch-bay which also encompasses up to 32 virtual MIDI ports in every computer (Win or Mac OS). AL-88c offers the top performance in terms of MIDI throughput and latency/jitter far below 1 ms.
AL-88c was tested against numerous Mac & PC programs - including MIDI Quest - for a perfect handling of the touchy SysEx exchanges of past synthesizers.
Applications:
- Home Studio.
- Live/Stage.
- Synthesizer collector.
Features:
- Self-contained interface, 8 MIDI In/Out pairs to Global MIDI Network.
- Peer to peer MIDI transport, on a channel basis, remapping and merging.
- Peer to peer MIDI transport without mandating a computer.
- Wall power adaptor with AC plug for EU or UK or US supplied.
- Rugged Aluminum profile.
- 100 Base-T Ethernet port with shielded RJ45.
- Upgrading the firmware is done via the network.
