Adding MIDI to Firewire Mixer?

Zangetsu · 07-09-2010 12:37PM #1

I've pretty much settled on getting a Mackie Onyx 1220i firewire mixer/interface. Pre-amps are grea, works with protools, multi track recording, great price, the works. Only thing it appears to be missing is midi.

Are there any interfaces I can get soley for midi that wouldn't interfere with the mixer?

Its the only thing stopping me right now...

Cheers!

Doge · 07-09-2010 12:57PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

I've pretty much settled on getting a Mackie Onyx 1220i firewire mixer/interface. Pre-amps are grea, works with protools, multi track recording, great price, the works. Only thing it appears to be missing is midi.

Are there any interfaces I can get soley for midi that wouldn't interfere with the mixer?

Its the only thing stopping me right now...

Cheers!

Any USB-Midi interface should'nt interfere with it since its using USB and not firewire.

And there's plenty of them!

Zangetsu · 07-09-2010 01:04PM

So say in Logic 8 or ProTools I'll be able to specify 2 interfaces to run at the same time yeah?

Doge · 07-09-2010 01:16PM

Zangetsu wrote: »

So say in Logic 8 or ProTools I'll be able to specify 2 interfaces to run at the same time yeah?

I've never used either mentioned but any sequencer worth its salt will allow you to run both a firewire mixer and a usb midi device simultaneously.

A midi controller keyboard is essentially a midi-usb device,

and people have used these along with firewire and usb interfaces simultaneously in sequncers for a long time now.

USB midi interfaces are fairly inexpensive anyway, so don't be too worried.

Dravokivich · 07-09-2010 01:49PM

All you'll need is something like these:

http://www.thomann.de/ie/midi_interfaces.html

Adding MIDI to Firewire Mixer?

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