Buchla 200e series, User Manual

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The USB Firmware Card’s alternate use is as a USB MIDI to internal MIDI bus
interface.
USB MIDI I/O Card (225m):
To Enable this facility, hook up the Firmware Card to a Mac computer and use
the Buchla Firmware Utility application to reprogram it’s function as a MIDI
interface for a 200e or 200h system.
In this mode, the USB device name for the Card becomes “225m”.
An example of the device listed in an Ableton “Live” MIDI preferences window.
MIDI note messages sent on channels 1-4 will be put onto the internal busses
A-D, as will MIDI clock/start/stop messages and vice-versa. That is, modules
that generate messages on the internal bus will also produce USB-MIDI
output on the 225m. That includes the 226h or 218e note messages (if
enabled) or the 252e clock/start/stop.
The example to the left shows the card being used to
send Ableton MIDI clips to the Internal MIDI bus A and
C as well as recording Internal MIDI bus B.
For more information on the internal busses
utilized by 200e and 200h modules, please see
the 225e section of the 200e User’s Guide.
If you loose USB-MIDI Port, use the
BuchlaFirmwareUtility to program the card
again and you should see the port reappear.
To return a Firmware Card’s function to do
Firmware Update’s, simply use the FirmwareUtility again to Enable/reprogram
the card for Firmware Update.