Why Is There No Usb Port On My Malletkat - Alternate Mode malletKAT User Manual

malletKAT User Manual (ver.07-17-18)
Change is actually TWO pieces of information: a Most Significant Bank (MSB) number, and a Least Significant
Bank (LSB) number.
Both the MSB and LSB numbers are also limited to 0-127 – but now a synthesizer could have 127 banks of 127
sounds each by changing the LSB number! At this point, the MSB is typically used by manufacturers simply to
differentiate their line of products from others. That may change more in the future.
Using a screenshot of the patch list from the KS Sound Card, we see these different MSB, LSB, and Patch
Numbers are used to access a large number of patches!
Here we see that the same Program Change numbers are used for different patches by using a different LSB
number.
To call up a "Rubber Marimba" Patch, the controller must send MSB:00, LSB:06, and PC:81 to the synth.
How a Synthesizer processes multiple patches simultaneously. (Multi Polyphony)
The MIDI Standard can accommodate up to 16 separate channels of MIDI performance information
simultaneously. This allows MIDI instruments to access and output up to 16 different patches simultaneously.
Because each User Setup in your malletKAT has two controllers, your malletKAT play two different sounds
on two different channels!

8.2. Why is There No USB Port on my malletKAT?

The answer here is twofold:
1) Even as the home computer/DAW has become more popular than ever, the standards and protocols for
passing digital information (USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt, etc...) keep changing. Meanwhile, the MIDI standard
used to connect digital musical instruments either directly to synthesizers has remained completely stable since
we started building instruments in 1984.
2) While the internal processing speeds of DAWs (and handheld devices, for that matter) have improved
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