Doepfer

Hello

> From the Manual: "The Midi input of MTV16 is not suitable for large 
> amounts of Midi data ... as the Midi in buffer is only 48 bytes."
> What does this mean in practise? I don't have a faintest idea how 
> much 48 bytes is in this context.
Unfortunately it is not really very meaningful.

Basically a MIDI-Event (e.g. one controller change, one note) consists 
of three bytes.
The three bytes tell you
byte 1) "what kind of data": note, controller,pitchbend...,
byte 2) "which channel and which data", e.g.: for a note channel+C5, for 
a controller channel+Volume,
byte 3) "which value" e.g. for note velocity=96, for control volume=122


So you see, that the inputbuffer is able to contain the information for 
16 controller values [*]. So if on your MIDI-cable there is not only the 
Controllerinfo for this MTV16, but also many other informations (e.g. 
Notes from your Sequencer), then the input buffer will have an overflow 
- data will be lost.

So, if the MTV16 is controlled by a computer, it should be controlled 
via a dedicated MIDI-Port, which does not transfer anything else but the 
Controllers for the MTV16.


Florian







[*]If the sending device uses the so called active mode (which I won't 
explain for now), it may be up to 23 events. But still this is not very 
much.