Edit/ did anybody catch in the Kickstarter video that the 2 sets of stereo outs can be used to send out separate parts?! Didn’t clarify if it was 4 mono outs for each part or not.
At 2:45 in the Kickstarter video, you can see it next to an Arturia Keystep, where it looks like it might have been intentionally sized to be only a few ounces of superglue away from a Manatee Keys edition.
Now that you mention it… Mmmaybe. I spend many hours in front of the screen and I have it dimmed and a bit red saturated on purpose. There is a Press Photos folder here… Anyway, nobody is perfect. (I mean the synth)
manatee Reddit topic
He does confirm that you can use the outputs as 4 mono outs for each part or a mix of different routing combos on the Reddit post.
Was looking at this earlier today then got home from work to look again and the early bird sold out. I think it would make a nice partner to my digitone.
already thinking ahead, if the 4 parts can output individual mono signal through each the stereo and aux outputs, then it’s a perfect use case for my mono guitar pedals which often get overlooked when I’m in synth mode
Today there was a project update that includes a link to this kanban board (link):
I hope it is updated in a way that it is useful to bakers and others wondering “is it done yet?” Anyway, I wish more crowdfunding projects would follow this example.
I’m probably overreading into your use of “need”. And the only MPE controller I have is the Linnstrument. So grains of salt on both accounts. But the full-sized Linnsturment can be powered over DC wall wart or USB. And the USB doesn’t have to be special, as far as power goes. It can come right from a phone charger.
For everything else, it’s more than happy to transmit over 5-pin DIN MIDI. That usually peaks at around 8ish channels’-worth of 3–5 CC streams (plus note on/off which are a rounding error. And one channel of more sparse global messages) but I haven’t had anything fall down under the pressure, yet. I mean, I can generate that much traffic with normal MIDI and a Pyramid without being too ambitious.
Certainly it’s way, way more convenient to run everything over a single wire, so I love it when a synth supports a host port. And we’ll soon be at the point where we want to sequence multiple MPE instruments from a single device, and we’ll need way more bandwidth than a single MIDI port allows for then.
But for now, connecting a controller an instrument, it doesn’t feel like a need. Just a nice-to-have.