Piano-Pete

Thanks again to all of you. Great forum.

I'm confused. 'In the zone' to me means a mental, maybe spiritual, state. It's mushin https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-japanese-state-of-mushin.html. Yet you are talking about practicing times and playings athletic physical aspects, which of course are critical too.

Good to know thanks! Thanks! I've played gigs with funky power. They're not fun! Maybe the negative reviews are from people who can't rtfm and route/set up properly?

I just read that entire page and I still don't understand what the box actually is, what it does, where it sits in the setup chain or how it interacts with everything else. Is that bad advertising or am I just dim? You don't have to answer that question. No it's not you. I had to research it a bit too. It's like a super usb and midi hub with ethernet too!. As I understand it anything plugged in can be routed to anything else plugged in, in any/all directions (except the power supply lol). Looks like a pretty powerful routing solution.

I've seen the iConnectivity stuff and lots of bad reviews of them not working properly. What has your experience with them been like? David Rosenthal uses two Radial SW8 switchers at $2000 each. Way out of my league.

Thanks! I'm pretty sure neither one can send midi to two computers simultaneously. The article linked seems to contradict itself. 'USB splitter is a device to connect peripheral devices to a computer. It increases the number of available USB slots built into a computer and increases options (adds functioning printers, scanners, cameras and other devices) for users.' then later it states 'When you need to connect a device to two computers at the same time, the answer goes to USB splitter'. Are they implying that the splitter can work in both directions? Plus midi is a different animal than a printer. From what I've learned recently midi via usb cannot be split. EDIT: This looks like it's translated from another language which probably adds to the confusion. Edit 2: The splitter is mis-named. Should be called a USB merge.

Thanks but I don't think this will work as a hub only outs to one computer afaik or am I incorrect here?

Sorry Pete, you are correct. I apologize. I missed that. I need more coffee! (I'm not the only one, ahem, Elmer!). Good luck with getting a workable setup. Thanks we all need more coffee!

Yes I was hoping to avoid the extra interface by splitting the midi then converting. Wish I had tons of money and could get a Radial SW8 but $2k is out of the question lol. Thanks for the reply! Not to be a noodge but did you read the op where I said I was trying to avoid a switcher?

Northgard and Heroes of the Storm. I'm upset that Diablo II remastered will be PC only. 23 years of supporting Blizzard games on Mac...

Hope this is the correct forum for this. I am in the process of moving to all computer generated sounds so I can fly to gigs without having to worry if I can get the backline I use. I am considering purchasing the Radial KL-8 to have a redundant system in case MacBook 'A' goes down I can seamlessly switch to MacBook 'B' with a foot switch. That looks like it will work well for switching outs but how would I switch the usb in from my keyboard controller to MacBook 'B' from MacBook 'A'? Is there there such a thing as a usb splitter? I'd rather not have to use a switcher as it's yet another button to press along with the foot switch, another thing that could go wrong, and would take my hands from the keys. So how can I send midi via usb to two Macs simultaneously from one controller?