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NCGM · Post by **NCGM** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:35 pm

I have a MIDEX+ that I got for £17 on Ebay last year, although despite Cubase having a Falcon driver for it, the bad news is that it does not work fully or so I read on the net.

Post by **atarisince1989** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:26 pm

NCGM wrote:I have a MIDEX+ that I got for £17 on Ebay last year, although despite Cubase having a Falcon driver for it, the bad news is that it does not work fully or so I read on the net.

What?!

I was just going to buy one for my Falcon. Does not work?

Post by **atarisince1989** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:32 pm

OK, just saw a post on Atari-forum.com about this: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.ph ... x+#p173859

Waxjoz said "Someone told me long ago, the Midex needed a hardware modification to work completely on a Falcon. But no one could tell me how."

Does anybody have confirmation of that information?

mal7921 · Post by **mal7921** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:49 pm

For the falcon I would get a soundpool mo4 and wither a MIDI merge and/or a midiman macman midi interface. For the soundpool Barrie may be able to help (Barrie@keychange.co.uk) but the midiman interfaces may well be eBay only, though freecycle has been good to me in the past.

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mal7921 · Post by **mal7921** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:01 pm

atarisince1989 wrote:OK, just saw a post on Atari-forum.com about this: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.ph ... x+#p173859

Waxjoz said "Someone told me long ago, the Midex needed a hardware modification to work completely on a Falcon. But no one could tell me how."

Does anybody have confirmation of that information?

I enguired about this a while back when I was looking at getting a MIDEX+ to replace my MIDEX. I remember seeing a circuit diagram many moons ago though I cannot tell you what was involved, though I was also told there was a small risk of damaging th Falcon if the mod was done wrong and that it did not always work.

One thing I can say is that the MIDEX does not work at all, other than as a key expander.

mal7921 · Post by **mal7921** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:51 pm

The reason the MIDEX & MIDEX+ have issues with the Falcon is that the cartridge port has a few tweaks and changes regarding addressing on the port, and the MIDEX units don't work with this. There is a similar issue with the TT, however this appears to have been addressed with the creation of a new driver.

Bare in mind though that I have not tried the MIDEX with a TT, at the time the TT was on loan for exhibitions so I rarely saw it.

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Post by **atarisince1989** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:53 pm

Thanks for confirming that Malcom.

mal7921 · Post by **mal7921** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:59 pm

I did mention it didn't work earlier but that was missed, but yes it is a shame. There is the smp24 but that is pretty pricey!

Like I said earlier, the mo4 is your best bet and if you need more MIDI inputs, a midi merge box or a midiman macman mini for an additional input

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Post by **atarisince1989** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:22 pm

For what I see here the MO4 have 4 MIDI OUT and 1 Parallel port. So it is sending the MIDI data through the Parallel port, right? Do you have to do anything special on Cubase to do it? No latency?

mal7921 · Post by **mal7921** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:35 pm

Works fine for me here, the driver is on the Cubase audio page in the featured articles/falcon audio software, just in case someone gets an interface with no driver (like I did)

Also if you do get one, make sure it has a cable

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Post by **atarisince1989** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:13 pm

Thanks a lot Malcolm.

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