Originally Posted By: Larry Kehl
I just look at MVS-1 > It also has a THRU - so question me this, why would one need to pre-"assign" channels to either? Or am I being too literal do you simply mean as a mental day-to-day procedural "rule" for DAW & controller use of them kind of like "channel management" when building a sequence?

Because there is no reason in some songs you might not want to trigger BOTH at same time on same channel - but with different sounds or maybe even the same sound (layered, thicker, detuned-dual, ..) ?

Larry


Yes, for some songs you may not want to trigger both synths is one reason. The other is for program changes and numbers. For example if channel 1 on synth 1 is a piano and channel 1 on synth 2 is a double bass they will not sound good together, especially during chords. Note that many sounds are in ROM and can not be changed or moved.

If one wants to detune sounds and/or layer them they will have to copy the MIDI track and assign each to the appropriate synth with the correct program changes. This is no different than have both synths connected separately and not daisy changed.


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