I have a MIDI Keyboard attached to my Analog Rytm in the MIDI IN Port.
I also want to use the Analog Rytm to send transport controls to the Analog Four, so I believe I need to use the OUT port on the Analog Rytm to the Analog Four.
However, I also want to receive the MIDI Notes from the Keyboard, but these don’t come through on the OUT port, only on the THRU port. However, the THRU port doesn’t send transport controls…
Is there anyway to pass thru notes from the Keyboard, but also send Transport controls on the TRHU port?
This is not going to be trivial. If you must be able to recieve the notes to both machines but also send clock, you will need a thru box and a merger.
One other way could be to send USB MIDI to one box and DIN MIDI to another… this might eliminate the need for splitting and merging.
No, wait, just thought of something - you could perhaps use the keymap mode on the A4 to split notes between A4 and AR? Connect the keyboard to A4 and MIDI OUT from A4 to AR MIDI IN. Then use A4 as the master clock and build a keymap to two or more zones, and pipe any zones you want to go to the rytm.
If you need the complete note range of the keyboard on both machines you’ll need at least a MIDI merger box.
Keyboard -> AR MIDI in
AR MIDI out + AR MIDI thru -> MIDI Merger Box -> A4 MIDI in
When trying the USB & DIN MIDI approach like @stutech suggested you will probably need a MIDI host box (or route the MIDI keyboard through a computer). So one way or the other: you will need some external device in your setup unless you can use multi map approach on the A4 (zones).
Do you recommend going A4->AR or AR->A4? What is best practice? Seems to me that you want to go A4->AR so you can get the compression of the AR, but maybe its better to route AR->A4?
Audio and MIDI don’t necessarily need to be connected in the same direction. You can connect the MIDI AR->A4 and the audio (for compression) A4->AR.
Each variation of the audio routing has its benefits. AR has the compressor, but the A4 can do things with the incoming audio the AR can only “dream of” (like using it as source for its oscillators with all the sound shaping possibilities afterwards).