[Coco] Midi and synther

Michael Brant brant.michael.l at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 15:20:10 EST 2016


I am using a DX21 ultimately I want to use the 21 as input and output from
the CoCoMIDI out. I want to use the CoCo to process the sound in realtime
as it them goes to another device via MIDI.

On Nov 18, 2016 3:14 PM, "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> Michael, what kind of synth do you have?
> Older synths are not "General Midi" compatible and harder to write for,
> where as newer synths provide "General Midi" sounds and make things nmuch
> easier.
> To write any MIDI program, one must know the specific MIDI implementation
> for that particular keyboard (if not General Midi).
> Both Lyra and Ultimuse3 cover all this in their user MIDI settings,
> Ultimuse3 being the more versatile of the two.
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> To be honest, I don't know why one would want to play from the Coco
> keyboard, being limited to single note, 2 octave (at the most using all 4
> rows) and no velocity info, when they can just play the MIDI keyboard
> instead.... unless you're using a keyless MIDI module.
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