I wanted to use my old Korg M1 keyboard as midi controller, and add my MPD32

I connected the Korg M1 midi-out to my sound-cards midi-IN
I connected the MPD32 midi-out to the midi-in on the Korg M1.

I can now trigger my daw with the M1 Keyboard perfectly, and the M1 even receives MIDI from the MPD32 but, the midi from the MPD32 does not get through to my DAW..

anyone knows if im doing something obviously wrong? cheers

 

Last edited: Dec 31, 2018

I think you need to use the midi thru to get the data back into your daw.
You might be able to use the M1 midi thru.
The M1 out is only going to pass the M1 midi data.

 

midi-man is right. If you want to send the MIDI data from the MPD32 through the M1 to your DAW, you'll need the M1's MIDI through for it (hence the name ). Then you would either need two MIDI ins in your audio interface or a MIDI merger, something like this

https://www.thomann.de/gb/midi_solutions_merger_v2.htm?ref=intl&shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZ2IiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6IjIiLCJsYW5ndWFnZSI6ImVuIn0=

It merges both ins to both outs.

But if you don't want to controll the M1 with the MPD32, I'd connect the MPD directly to the merger.

 

hi guys! thanks for chiming in, I wonder though, could it be that the M1 "midi through" only sends midi out to other "sound modules" as said in here? so that its its a sort of midi-out only, not back to daw? https://www.notation.com/ComposerDocs3/tuning_a_device_to_specific.htm

and why would I need two cables dear No Avenger,
if the mpd32 goes midi out into M1, and M1 goes midi out to the midi-in of my interface, then only one cable would be needed right

its weird, only when using usb Im able to mount the m1 via my mpd, but that adds latency, specially noticeable when a project is under heavy load and I can't have extremely low buffer size, midi cables are much more efficient

 

Last edited: Dec 31, 2018

What you are missing is that the m1 input is filtering the data. It needs to pass the data of the other midi port.
USB midi cables are different my mpk61 has multipal ports on the usb cable.

It's not that the midi cable is more efficient it's that in my knowledge it's dedicated only midi data.

 

not weird just usb....but it would be interssting to determ how ,when or why usb-(midi) get better latency

 

Nope, the MIDI out is reserved for the keyboard. Input data are not routed to the out, but to the through-port. What comes in must go through, not out.
So, you'll need one cable for M1 MIDI out and one for the through, adds up to two.
Or you just use both outs, but that's two either.

Meanwhile there is a lot of hardware which has a MIDI out/through combi port, but this is not the case here.

 

confusing for the first.....shouldnt it be named converter or sort of...or switch...

 

To merge = verschmelzen, where's is that confusing? There's nothing converted and it has no switch, so...