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USING MIDI SOFTWARE
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Figure 4-2: MOTU MIDI Express XT and micro express interface ports in
Cakewalk SONAR™.
THE MIDI DATA PATH (MAC AND WINDOWS)
As for MIDI data arriving and leaving your computer via
the MOTU USB MIDI interface driver, imagine it coming
and going from the MOTU interface as shown in
Figure 4-3. All channelizing and filtering is applied before
the input data arrives at the computer and after it is sent
from the computer.
MOTU
MIDI Interface
data bus
Channel
mapping
Computer
MDI OUT
Channel
mapping
Event filtering Event filtering
MDI IN
Figure 4-3: The path that MIDI data takes through a MOTU Express XT or micro express. Other MOTU interfaces do not provide MIDI processing.
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