A super cheap YME-8 arrived at my doorstep today. I ordered it after looking for Midi Mergers and gathering some info about this Unit.
Syntaur as well as Polynominal advertise that these units do not only deliver a thru signal but also a merge signal. https://www.polynominal.com/site/studio/gear/synth/yamaha-yme8/yamaha-yme8.html
“Midi Merge
If sending 2 signals from midi IN to same Midi OUT groups the YME8 acts also as a basic Midi merger.”
Upon investigation the switches on the devices act as one ways and thus I cannot create a merge signal. Anyone that owns a YME that can tell me where I went wrong or is there just some false information floating around the web?
Yeah thats what I’ve been noticing too! Crazy, there are various other sites like auctions etc. that adverted it as a merge/thru ^^
nonetheless a rock solid and active midi thru, worth the buck
Wonder if there is a way to give it an “and” connection rather than only “or” connections… @darenager i hope you don’t mind that I’m summoning you
EDIT: But obv. the one who reads carefully and spends more time researching would not find the self in this situation
Interesting! I was thinking more on the modifying circuitry side ^^
As in having a position for the lower switch that connects midi IN-2 to Out-4/8 and IN-1 to Out-4/8. As I can have both seperately communicating to these outs I’m wondering if it is worth a try to have both communicating to it simultaneously. But to be fair I have close to no expertise in modifying existing midi connections and I do not know if this would be even technically feasible at all
You could try a mod but in most cases it won’t work due to the way midi signals are scheduled, a proper merger has a microcontroller which will take care of this.
