| What do do with MIDI?
Speaking of busy panels, you might notice that our panels don't have any explicit MIDI connectors. One reason is because our space is so large that we actually exceed the parameters of the 15m maximum for MIDI cable length.
There are MIDI transceivers that work across CAT5/6, and we have plenty of that at the panels and jackfields in our main equipment room, so the theory is that if somebody wants to send/receive MIDI signals, they can connect up to a transceiver, make a patch in the closet, and feed a MIDI I/O box that then feeds a DAW.
A competing theory is that the only place we really need to support MIDI is for folks who are bringing in producer racks into the Control Room. In this scenario we just collect MIDI to a MIDI I/O box and use a USB extender to feed that back into the DAW.
If you are a MIDI freak or geek, how would you want your MIDI to work? |