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hogan wrote:50' is the usual caveat.Appreciated. I read the same on the voodoo forum and ironically the voodoo folks jump into almost every single thread but that one hence asking here.
Yes you can link two cables together.
RiverRat wrote:MIDI receiver impedence is typically 200ohm... cabling shouldn't go more than 40 ohm.hmmm . . . I would think just the opposite - MIDI signals are really small files and just 0's and 1's I would think that as long as the 0's and 1's get sent through the line signal loss and noise etc don't matter since all that matters are the 0's and 1's kinda like a DAT tape vs cassette tape - if the magnetism of a cassette degrades you loose dynamics and signal to noise gets worse, if the same happens to a DAT tape then no problem, no loss until the 0's and 1's are totally gone. Maybe I'm missing something, I dunno.
50 foot between devices is the maximum recommended. 20 to 30 is better, depending on how many devices in the chain. Using S/FTP cabling, you may be able to go past 50', if you roll your own cables.
Digital signalling is NOT forgiving of losses like audio cabling...
tcsned wrote:RiverRat wrote:MIDI receiver impedence is typically 200ohm... cabling shouldn't go more than 40 ohm.hmmm . . . I would think just the opposite - MIDI signals are really small files and just 0's and 1's I would think that as long as the 0's and 1's get sent through the line signal loss and noise etc don't matter since all that matters are the 0's and 1's kinda like a DAT tape vs cassette tape - if the magnetism of a cassette degrades you loose dynamics and signal to noise gets worse, if the same happens to a DAT tape then no problem, no loss until the 0's and 1's are totally gone. Maybe I'm missing something, I dunno.
50 foot between devices is the maximum recommended. 20 to 30 is better, depending on how many devices in the chain. Using S/FTP cabling, you may be able to go past 50', if you roll your own cables.
Digital signalling is NOT forgiving of losses like audio cabling...
strumminsix wrote: What is being said is that while an audio signal gets weaker over long cabling the GCX will simply go from sending/receiving to no communication.True, but I would think that the cable would have to be really long to totally loose all signal. I used to use a 100ft midi cable for my guitar synth to steal sounds off a keyboard players rack synth and never had any issues.
tcsned wrote:It doesn't have to lose all signal. It just has to degrade to the point where the 1's and 0's start getting confused.strumminsix wrote: What is being said is that while an audio signal gets weaker over long cabling the GCX will simply go from sending/receiving to no communication.True, but I would think that the cable would have to be really long to totally loose all signal. I used to use a 100ft midi cable for my guitar synth to steal sounds off a keyboard players rack synth and never had any issues.
