Connecting Additional Gear With Midi Thrus - MOTU FastLane Quick Start Manual

CONNECTING ADDITIONAL GEAR WITH MIDI
FastLane
THRUS
If you use up both MIDI OUTs on the FastLane,
and you still have more gear to connect, run a
MIDI cable from the MIDI THRU of a device
MIDI
already connected to the interface to the MIDI IN
OUT
on the additional device as shown below in
MIDI cable
Figure-4. The two devices then share the same
MIDI OUT port on FastLane. This means that they
share the same set of 16 MIDI channels, so try to
MIDI Device MIDI IN
do this with devices that receive on only one MIDI
channel (such as effects modules) so their receive
channels don't conflict with one another.
MIDI
THRU
MIDI cable
MIDI IN
Additional device
Figure-4: Connecting additional devices with MIDI THRU ports.
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