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MIDI ROUTING WINDOW
The MIDI Routing window is the control center for
routing and processing MIDI data with your MIDI
Express XT. Although your computer will always
be able to receive MIDI data from the eight inputs
and send data to the eight outputs with your
Windows MIDI sequencing software, the Console
has the ability to configure the MIDI Express XT to
internally route MIDI data from any input to any
combination of outputs. The MIDI Routing
window also allows you to route MIDI Time Code
(converted from incoming SMPTE or generated
“fresh”) to any of the eight outputs. Additionally,
you can individually rechannelize and filter (apply
an event filter) any type of incoming or outgoing
MIDI data on each input and output.
The processing sequence described Figure 7-5 on
page 54 is conveniently represented in the layout of
the MIDI Routing window. The MIDI data flow
proceeds from left to right. MIDI inputs, or
sources ,
are represented on the left by the input port and
clock (for MIDI Time Code converted from
SMPTE) icons. MIDI outputs, or
destinations , are
represented on the right by the output port icons.
Port-to-port routings are represented by extended
arrows going from sources to destinations. The
processing options (filtering and channelizing) are
represented by the four buttons along the top of the
window. You can clearly see the logical processing
order with this layout as shown in Figure 7-7.
Figure 7-7: The MIDI Routing window with a source and
destination selected.
input
filter
button
input
channel map
button
MIDI
“data bus”
source icons routing connections destination
icons
channels
being routed
output
channel map
button
output
filter
button
advanced
MIDI settings
deletes all current connections
or any source connections
drag-and-dropped to it
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