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Re: Help needed w/echoplex ARRAY

At 01:12 AM 1/7/2007, Bob Weigel wrote:
>Yeah I figured doing the brother sync for the stereo pairs.  The midi out 
>to in ...I guess means that each unit generates a sync signal to the out 
>that reflects what's coming in which is good.

The Echoplex does an intelligent MIDI merge between the MIDI in and MIDI 
out connections. We called it MIDIpipe. Whatever comes in to the MIDI in 
gets sent back out the MIDI out, and whatever MIDI commands the Echoplex 
itself is generating are mixed into that stream to the MIDI out. However, 
it is intelligent and will not send a command through if it will just be a 
duplicated command.

We designed this in LoopIV because people wanted to string together 
multiple Echoplexes in so many different ways. This makes it possible for 
a 
lot more combinations to work easily, and still all be controlled in a 
simple fashion from one controller.

For example, if a MIDI clock message came from a previous unit in the 
chain 
and the unit doing the merging is also ready to send a clock command 
(maybe 
they were all starting a loop together), it will be smart enough to know 
there is already a clock and not duplicate it. Your drum machine at the 
end 
won't suddenly go into double time.

This is all really transparent. The point is for it to Just Work so you 
shouldn't have to worry about it or care what is going on behind the 
scenes. plug and play.

I explained it much better in the manual, page 7-8:
http://www.gibson.com/files/amps/EchoplexPlusManual12.pdf

kim


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