Using Two Controllers Simultaneously?

[jephix]

Hello Fellow DM2 Users,

Well I have successfully bypassed the problem of not being able to use my DM2 on my Windows 7 laptop - I bought an old XP machine from somebody for a hundred bucks and I've installed the drivers, and DM2MIDI, along with MIDI-OX and MIDI-YOKE, although not necessary until you see what I'm trying to do next, and I have it so that the MIDI signals from the DM2 are being sent out the hard-ware MIDI-OUT cable from the XP machine, into a MIDI-IN on my laptop (really it's going into my Korg PadKontrol) and I can get it to work now with FL Studio.

Here is my new problem: I was at a pawn shop the other day and there was a used DM2 sitting there for $40 bucks, so I bought it thinking " This is great, I will be able to use two of them and have twice the mixing control over my music-making adventures - 32 tracks, 2 warp controllers, 8 preset banks of track-memory combinations, 2 solo buttons, etc etc... But I have run into an issue that I figured would happen....

It seems that you can load DM2MIDI in as many instances as I want, I can have two DM2MIDI windows running simultaneously.
And I can have both my DM2 Mixers installed and functional using their DM2USB controller driver. HOWEVER - the problem is that there does not seem to be any way to tell DM2MIDI which USB controller to use for it's input - it just selects one of them, and then if I go to open a second DM2MIDI Window, it just sends another set of MIDI signals from the same DM2 mixer controller.

Does anybody know of a way to get both DM2 mixers to send their respective signals into the two DM2MIDI instances separately? And then therefore with one of the instances set to say "MIDI Yoke 1" Output, and the other set to "MIDI Yoke 2" Output, I would be able to get my controllers both operating at the same time.

Right now, I don't see any way around this without having to go and buy another computer to be the USB-to-MIDI interface for the other DM2 controller. It seems a little crazy to think that I would need a DM2 running into a stand-alone computer and then use the MIDI out to go into my main music program machine - for EACH DM2 controller I have.

So does anyone know how to make the DM2MIDI program choose a specific USB controller for it's input signals??

Thanks!

[LastDM2adminDJP]

ive done this many times in midi ox. You can seperate the dm2's by using another midi channel so if dm2 1 uses midi yoke channel 1 input/ output then you would want dm2 2 to use channel 3 input/output. Then the tricky part is in midi ox you need to change the signal so they dont send the same midi command. So when you hit a sound bank in midi ox you change the number. I dont recall exactly its been a year or so but midi ox had a emulation thing. That would allow you to change it to a channel of your own choosing. That is how its done. I also remember someone showing me how to do it just in dm2midi. But that was some time ago.

[jephix]

Hey Man, I really appreciate the response, it just doesn't seem to make sense with the way I have things routed. The problem is that I can't get the two instances of the DM2-to-MIDI program to recognize or use only one of the DM2 hardware controllers as the input source for sending it's output to a separate midi yoke port. So it's like I can have the two DM2-to-MIDI programs send information to two separate MIDI Yoke ports and then MIDI Ox can recognize it as two separate channels or input ports, but when I press one or the other controllers it just goes to both DM2-to-MIDI instances, therefore it is like having two of the same USB controller rather than two separate devices. Anyway, I think I might e-mail the creator of DM2-to-MIDI and see if his e-mail still works. Also, if you can remember exactly how to get DM2-to-MIDI to pick which USB hardware controller it is recieving from that would help... for now I have actually done a crazy mod to the DM2 taking it out of the case and mounting it to my guitar which was already modified with some other crazy devices. The modification is complete and working and now I just need to practice with the whole setup and create some mixes to funk out with and then record a video and take some pictures. I will post to the board the insane new instrument I have created. Peace!

[LastDM2adminDJP]

lemme see if i can write up a guide