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OWNER'S MANUAL
Version 0.10 (Draft)

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  • Page 1 OWNER’S MANUAL Version 0.10 (Draft)

  • Page 2: Warranty

    Warranty iConnectivity warrants to the original purchaser that this unit is free of defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and maintenance for a period of one (1) year from the date of original purchase. The warranty applies only to registered iConnectivity users that register their product(s) within fourteen (14) days of time of original purchase.

  • Page 3: Precautions/Important Notes

    PRECAUTIONS / IMPORTANT NOTES Interference with other electrical devices FCC (USA) / IC (Canada) Regulation Warning Radios and televisions placed nearby may experience This equipment has been tested and found to comply reception interference. Operate this unit at a suitable with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to distance from radios and televisions.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    What’s in the box ! ............. The iConnectMIDI hardware ........Mac OS X set-up ............ Windows set-up ............iOS set-up ............... Using multiple iConnectivity interfaces ....Port Routing: understanding iConnectMIDI MIDI 20 Audio passThru™ ............ iConnectivity iConfig software ........ Troubleshooting ............Specifications ............
  • Page 5 Thank you for purchasing the iConnectMIDI Hybrid multi-host MIDI interface with Audio passThru™ technology. Your iConnectMIDI completely redefines the concept of a MIDI interface, integrating today’s professional multiple-computer set-ups with iOS devices and traditional MIDI hardware. Not only does your new interface support two computer devices simultaneously –...

  • Page 6: Do You Need To Read This Manual

    Please be sure to read the set- up instructions, and especially the explanation of port routing and the iConnectivity iConfig software so you understand how the routing works. This will ensure that you’re able to take full advantage of all the advanced features your state-of-the-art device has to offer.

  • Page 7: What's In The Box

    What’s in the box • The iConnectMIDI • One 5 ft 30-pin to iConnectivity USB (B) inline connection cable to connect the interface to an iOS device that uses this connector. • One USB-A to USB-B cable to connect the interface to a Mac or PC computer.

  • Page 8: The Iconnectmidi 2+ Hardware

    The iConnectMIDI...
  • Page 9 Power button This switch has several functions. • Putting the iConnectMIDI to sleep and waking it up. Put the device to sleep by holding the button in for a couple of seconds until the green LED (2) goes out, then releasing it. Wake it up by touching it briefly.
  • Page 10 USB power supply in this port, such as an iPhone/iPad/iPod charger). It also accepts an iConnectivity 30-pin to USB-B cable for MIDI (but not audio) connection to an iOS device. MIDI is transmitted at full USB speed.

  • Page 11: Mac Os X Set-Up

    Mac OS X set-up 1. Connect a USB A-to-B standard cable from Device port 1 or 2 to your Mac computer. If you’re using the iConnectMIDI alone on the Mac, that’s it. It will show up as an available audio and a MIDI interface in your software. You can confirm this beforehand by opening the Audio MIDI Setup application found inside your Applications ->...
  • Page 13 After that the Aggregate Device will behave as a single interface with extra inputs and outputs. You can name it, as shown on the following screen shot:...
  • Page 14 Whether the iConnectMIDI ’s audio I/Os are numbered before, after, or in between other interfaces connected to your Mac computer may be arbitrary.
  • Page 15 In the following two screen shots, the device we’ve created (called iCM2+ & 2882) shows up in Apple Logic Pro X, then in Avid Pro Tools 10:...

  • Page 17: Windows Set-Up

    Windows set-up 1. Connect a USB A-to-B standard cable from Device port 1 or 2 to your Windows computer. The iConnectMIDI will appear in your MIDI software as an available MIDI interface with four 16-channel ports. In the following dialog in the Plogue Bidule host, for example, the MIDI interface is called “USB Audio Device”: 2.
  • Page 18 If you are using the iConnectMIDI alongside other audio interfaces installed on the Windows computer, as shown above, they are automatically “aggregated” into what appears to the software as a single interface with combined number of outputs in each one. This is automatic when you select the ASIO4all driver.

  • Page 19: Ios Set-Up

    More realistically, four iConnectMIDI interfaces fit side-by-side in a 1U rack space. The iConnectivity iConfig program can access all the iConnectivity devices attached to the computer device it’s running on, one interface at a time. Of course, you can use the iConnectMIDI in addition to other audio and MIDI interfaces on any Mac or Windows computer.

  • Page 20: Port Routing: Understanding Iconnectmidi Midi

    Port Routing: understanding iConnectMIDI MIDI The iConnectMIDI has four physical sets of I/O jacks (two bidirectional USB Device Jacks plus two pairs of standard MIDI 5-pin DIN I/Os). Inside the unit each MIDI DIN pair has its own 16-channel MIDI Port, and each USB Device Jack has its own set of four 16-channel MIDI Ports.

  • Page 21: Audio Passthru

    (four in each direction), depending on the sample rate and bit depth setting you choose in the iConnectivity iConfig software. Its default setting is at the CD standard of 16 bits and a 44.1kHz sample rate.

  • Page 22: Iconnectivity Iconfig Software

    The iConnectivity iConfig software is available for download from www.iConnectivity.com (the iOS version is available on the Apple App Store). It provides access to some sophisticated MIDI features in the iConnectivity interface(s) connected to your system, as well as the audio settings. It allows you to save and open complete routing and processing Snapshot files that make working with sophisticated systems...
  • Page 23 You can see the green iConnectMIDI indicator lights flashing while this is going on. In the following example we have one unit connected to a Mac: (Should any of your iConnectivity devices fail to appear, the most likely culprit has to be...
  • Page 24 Here you see information about your connected devices (note that you can change the Device Name field to something custom; this might be especially useful in larger set-ups with multiple iConnectivity interfaces), along with the eight tabs used to navigate the program:...

  • Page 26: Port Routing: Understanding Iconnectmidi 2+ Midi

    About the “Running Status on DIN ports” checkbox (under MIDI Information): this defaults to being disabled/not transmitted (white), since it must be implemented – and implemented correctly - in the receiving device to function. As a practical matter, Running Status is a “leave it off unless you know otherwise” parameter. Running Status is part of the MIDI spec, implemented to reduce the amount of MIDI data that must be sent.
  • Page 27 In the following screen from the Mac version you can see that iCM2 DIN 1 is routed to both USB Device Jacks’ first ports and to DIN 2. This is the default routing: [Port Routing window] There are countless applications in which the routing feature might be useful. Perhaps you need one MIDI keyboard controller routed to a layered sound that’s on two different computer devices, or maybe you have a percussion pad that you want “hardwired”...
  • Page 28 Then select the data type to be filtered on that port. The first six types of data can be filtered on selected MIDI channels; due to their nature, the remaining data types are filtered/enabled for the entire Port on all channels. MIDI Active Sensing, an arguably obsolete command designed to let you know when a device has gone offline (usually because it’s unplugged), is filtered by default.
  • Page 29 Channel Remap tab The Channel Remap matrix allows you to change various types of incoming or outgoing MIDI data from one channel to another. To use it in the Mac and Windows software, select the Port(s) to be filtered in the Port column.
  • Page 30 Then go over to the Remap Channels table and select the data type and channel to be remapped, and enter the destination channel number in the Remap to Channel row. Again this is in multiple screens in the iOS version, and again this should be completely intuitive.
  • Page 31 Then each row lets you select one of the 127 MIDI Controllers from the Controller ID drop-downs. Only the first 30 or so are shown below, but all 127 controllers in the MIDI spec are there if you continue scrolling down: This too is on multiple screens in the iOS version.
  • Page 32 In this case Controller Filter #1 is enabled on Channels 1 and 2. To get to the list of available controllers, tap the Bank Select (coarse) area and then select the MIDI controller you wish to filter. MIDI Continuous Controller #1, Modulation, is being filtered in the following example (scroll down to get to the remaining ones in the MIDI spec):...
  • Page 33 Controller Remap tab This matrix allows you to remap, or convert, up to eight MIDI Controllers from one type to another on selected MIDI channels. If you want to use, say, the mod wheel to control volume, this is where you’d convert MIDI CC#1 (Modulation) to #7 (Main Volume). The iOS software interface works just the controller filters above, except that there are Source and Destination controllers at the bottom of the second to last screen.
  • Page 34 Then choose the Controller types in the Source and Destination drop-downs on each row, and enable/disable the MIDI channels you want the conversion to apply to. The lists of available controllers are identical to the one in the Controller Filters tab above. Audio Info tab The final tab is a list view with information about the internal audio ports, along with a few adjustable parameters.
  • Page 35 Audio Configuration: this drop-down offers a choice of seven different combinations of sample rate, number of audio channels, and bit rate. (Audio channels are divided evenly between the inputs and outputs, and they’re all accessible by any computer device connected to the iConnectMIDI The higher each of these numbers is, the more data is transferred and therefore more bandwidth is used.
  • Page 36 should you encounter problems with Audio passThru™, try changing these two parameters until you find a suitable combination. Port Information The Port Name here is editable, and the Number of Input/Output channels fields reflect the settings in the Audio Configuration field above. Note that you can enable or disable audio to each port, and also that iOS audio is available only in USB Port 1 (as indicated on the front panel as well).

  • Page 37: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting No indicator lights Typically, data flowing through iConnectMIDI will cause the respective indicator lights to flash. If, however, there are no lights flashing at the port where you expect a device to be active with data, then this is an indication of one or more of the following causes: 1.
  • Page 38 your headphones to the computer and listen through it instead of the iOS device. No Audio passThru™ from the iOS app to the DAW Confirm that the sample rate set in the iConfig software is supported by your iOS app (DAWs generally support them all).

  • Page 39: Specifications

    Specifications General USB Device port 1 - supports audio and MIDI for iOS devices, Mac, and PC. When optional power supply is connected, charges iOS device in this port (note: device must be powered on to charge). USB Device port 2 - supports audio and MIDI for Mac and PC, MIDI only for iOS, accepts USB bus power (from a computer or a USB charging device).

  • Page 40: Appendix: Midi And Audio Basics

    Appendix: MIDI and audio basics First came analog synthesizers, then came the digital revolution, at which time synthesizers were starting to come under digital control. To allow them to communicate with one another, in 1983 several musical instrument manufacturers agreed upon a standard: the Multiple Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI).
  • Page 41 convenient and cost-effective to add, say, an iPad to your music-making set-up. USB MIDI USB is a bidirectional protocol that’s fast enough to carry a wide variety of things simultaneously – audio, MIDI, printer hookups, keyboards and mouses, etc. Some MIDI instruments today have USB connections instead of the standard DIN ports, in other words they have the equivalent of built-in MIDI interfaces that connect directly to a computer.

  • Page 42: Support

    Support Connect with us for support. Online Visit iConnectivity.com. Share your ideas, review FAQs for each product, and access our community forum for discussions on unique rig set-ups, product uses and more. Direct Email: support@iConnectivity.com Tel: +1(403)457-1122 Support Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 am (MST) to 4:30 pm (MST)

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