mpc one & M-audio midisport 2x2?

greetings...

connect M-audio midisport 2x2 in mpc one, does it work? to have more midi in/out.

thank!

I’ll try it tonight

I sold off my M-audio midi sport 8x8 years ago, because it wouldn't work with the MPC Live/X as a midi device. I believe it needs specific drivers installed, so probably not class compliant midi, or at least wasn't compatible for linux.

Don't have it now to test though, so things may have changed.

Sadly, "not supported" message.

The CME U6MIDI Pro is a great alternative... 3 In, 3 Out. Pretty good routing/filtering/remapping software too..... and very cheap.

The Midisport 2x2 can be used, but it's slightly challenging. There are three issues: (1) the Midisport boxes don't have a firmware. It's just a Cypress EZ-USB microcontroller, and the only thing it can do after power-on is to receive software from the host computer, to be able to do anything. The driver uploads software which makes it work as a Midisport. (2) The software that the Windows and Mac drivers push to the microcontroller, is not class-compliant. You'll have to find a class-compliant alternative. (3) After having programmed the Midisport box with a class-compliant firmware, you have to somehow keep it powered while you connect it to your Akai device, or otherwise the memory is cleared and it loses the software and is just a dumb microcontroller. But it's doable!



Akai MPC/Force hackers who do the "SSH hack" etc. could, in theory, maybe, add the firmware-uploading to the Linux system and so people could use their old Midisport devices. Having the uploader on the MPC/Force itself would eliminate issue 3, and make the Midisports actually usable.

HouseWithoutMouse wrote:The Midisport 2x2 can be used, but it's slightly challenging.

That sounds like a proper ball ache to get setup, but pretty cool and interesting

In case someone wants to try adding that to their arsenal of MPC hacks, the uploader is called "fxload" and there seem to be many different versions out there. The class-compliant "firmware" (not very firm since it doesn't survive a power-off) package is "firmwarehotplug". I used some other/older version I found from somewhere, and I had to patch it to work with whatever SDCC compiler I had, but here's a version that claims to have been patched for newer SDCC versions already: https://github.com/lhondareyte/firmwarehotplug

The Midisport 2x2 can be nice for MIDI hobby programming, because it's quite widely available and cheap, easy to program, sits in a robust box, has MIDI connectors and leds and everything. For an Arduino you'll have to add the MIDI connectors first. (Unless you use it as a USB MIDI gadget.) The obvious downside is, it loses its software when disconnected from USB power.