KAWAI MIDI PATCHBAY SOFTWARE

With some things running maybe independently from the computer. So far I think I’ll just keep on working with a hybrid setup. Best thing I ever did was ditching my Korg DSS-1’s floppy drive in favour of an HxC floppy emulator. I was mainly using this as a midi thru box, so I no longer need the patchbay architecture. Besides this, the thing needs floppies to backup data, and that’s not something I want to have to mess with. The Kawai MAV-8 is an amazing 1U midi patchbay that can also function as a midi THRU Box, supporting 4 Inputs (A, B, C and D) and 8 outputs. S2000 Midi Stereo Digital Sampler - 8 MWords FLASH-ROM - 8 MWords RAM - ADO1 (8 zusätzliche Einzelausgänge. Schade, dass die nie Sampler gebaut haben. Using it will definitely make my workflow more complex. Das mit den ganzen KAWAI-Teilen ist halt bei mir eher so ein rumgefreake, am liebsten hätte ich auch noch einen K5, R100, R50, XD5 - überhaupt eben alles, was KAWAI jemals gebaut hat. Still I’m not really getting into the spirit of it, and I just don’t get certain design decisions Yamaha made on it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an extremely powerful and relatively easy to use device, it has a nice big screen and is really well built (love the white computer-key like buttons that give a nice clicking sound when pressed). Which was a major disappointment unfortunately. Third thing I got is Frank’s QY-300 sequencer.

KAWAI MIDI PATCHBAY SOFTWARE

I only have to sort out some software issues… the thing will go bezerk from time to time, acting like if someone would turn all the knobs at once. Won’t use it as a looper, since that’s not where it shines most, would be a pity to sacrifice a great delay to use it as a mediocred looper. I bought an Eventide TimeFactor, which is also a great pedal. This one is probably a keeper, though right now I just borrowed it from a friend. Works like a charm and is very intuitive to use. It has 4 tracks, pitch shifting (even with quantization on notes, intervals or octaves), reverse and midi-sync.

Ive got a used Kawai MAV-8 midi patchbay that has worked pretty good for me. Amazing device, very powerful and well thought out. I have a small handful of midi synths etc. I played around with an Electro Harminix 2880 Looper pedal. I got to test a couple of hardware devices in the process, but my experience is a mixed one. Each of the 8 outputs can be linked or switched off to one of the 4 inputs.

The unit has 4 Midi In ports, and 8 Midi Out ports - and via sliders on the front. Now that I had some time to play around and experiment with different solutions I’ve come to the conclusion that this whole project of going computerless won’t work out for me. Then the Kawai MAV-8 MIDI Patchbay is something for you The MAV-8 is a 4x8 patchbay as rack device (19'). This listing is for a nice, and very functional Kawai MAV-8 Midi Patchbay.

Kawai midi patchbay