A wireless solution for your average MIDI studio ..

[Peter Korsten]

Op 15-7-2011 17:47, Jay Vaughan schreef:

>> As Martin pointed out, just controlling the MIDI wirelessly whilst you
>> still need cables for power and audio is not particularly useful.
>
> It would remove the need for a laptop, if you can access all your MIDI gear wirelessly from a tablet application.  Right now, tablets have very limited options for connecting to MIDI gear (unless on iPad, in which case its pretty good, but still: wired) but if we can make a cheap wireless adapter that plugs into any MIDI port and exposes that machine to the tablet wirelessly, thats the direction we'd go.

OK, that makes sense. But you still need to hook up the synths and rack 
units and whatnot to some sort of mixer, plus the power supply of 
course. So, instead of a whole lot of little devices that plug into MIDI 
ports (I'm imagining you'd need two per synth, unless you're happy with 
unidirectional traffic, and anything other than something that looks 
like a plug will give you trouble with sticking it to the synth), would 
it be an idea to have a unit that either has a bunch of MIDI ports plus 
ANT, or even a USB host port to connect a USB MIDI interface?

One thing that would concern me is that, if you have plug-like devices, 
they can be easily nicked.

- Peter