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Post subject: Help!! I need some advice on my Cyber Twin.....
Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:33 pm
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I just recently bought a fender cyber twin amp and I am very satisfied with it, but I was wondering if anyone can tell what the MIDI input and output jacks on the back or for. I not to up to date with technology so any news will help. thanks to anyone who can help me.


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Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:12 pm
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See http://www.generalcybersystems.com/GCSWebSite/Index.htm
All the answers are in this website.

Ciao,
Johnny.


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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:47 am
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MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and it was created decades ago as a standard communication protocol between synthesizers and computers. It was mostly used to allow for computer sequencing: a computer sends a stream of MIDI messages, which act as instruction for a synthesizer, telling it what note to play and when,for how long, with what effects, etc. In this way, you could record a keyboard performance,for example, as a stream of MIDI data - kind of like the holes in a player piano roll - which would then tell the synthesizer to reproduce that performance later.

But people found a million and one uses for MIDI in the entertainment world. It could be used to send instructions to lighting rigs, synchronizing lights with music... you could use MIDI to trigger soudn effects from drum hits or pedal stomps.... or you could build a set of MID instructions into digital devices and change setting, spatches and parameters automatically during performance.

So that's what the jacks on your amp are for. The MIDI IN allows you to plug a MIDI device into it and use MIDI to control the parameters of the amp. That might be a computer front end, like the one Johnny linked to, so that you can create patches controlling the amp from your computer... perhaps you would play in a band where the amp would change patches automatically when the soundman sent a MIDI signal from a laptop, or maybe you'd use a MIDI foot controller to choose your amp patches on the fly. The MIDI out is so you can save MIDI data from the amp.

You can get a solid understanding of the entire protocol and how it's used by reading "MIDI for Musicians" by Craig Anderton.


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