midi fx in hardware

it'd be lovely if i had a little box with 2+ midi ins+outs that could:

1) merge

2) duplicate

3) filter (remove all notes >N etc)

4) arp

5) straightforward delay (latency etc)

6) feedback delay (music effect)

i suppose i could just knock that together on the computer, and i probably will... but i really would like a piece of hardware that does it.

is there anything? seems like something you could do sdiy with a PIC...

the rm1x has lots of handy midi efx. you could buy one of those and plug in yer midi. i guarantee it!!

you don't want too much info going down one MIDI cable btw, bandwidth of hardware MIDI isn't up to what it's capable of however the was a load of good Phil Rees modules made a while back which are discontinued now but pop up on ebay from time to time

on the FX side....

Oh, dreamy!

could i maybe get a suggestion that isn't a piece of autechre gear?

everything on your list was produced in hardware form in the late '80s

midi patchbays are still pretty easy to find - for merge and split and occasionally event filtering

standalone midi arps were made in the early '00s by mam and waldorf so they're still findable

midi delay can be found in software - it used to be in cakewalk but i've never looked to see if Sonar still has it

  On 10/8/2010 at 10:26 PM, analogue wings said:

midi delay can be found in software - it used to be in cakewalk but i've never looked to see if Sonar still has it

cubase has all this, but i only have so many midi ports on my computer, and hardware is much simpler.

RM1X!

i think AW's answer wins. rm1x looks like a fine machine, but i am after midi utility bricks, not a groovebox!!

arduino + midi library = whateveryouwanttodo

really though.

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/MIDILibrary

could be made for about 70 bucks.