I recently bought a Polyend Poly 2 and just started using it. It comes with one MIDI DIN to 3.5 mm TRS adapter cable. I decided to buy a couple more, and went with cables meant for Make Noise 0-Coast. It turns out these are incompatible. I surmise that Make Noise uses Type A, i.e. the type Arturia uses, i.e. data maps to ring.
I contacted Polyend and promptly received a response; in fact, they sent me a diagram (see attached). Polyend uses the type in which data maps to tip, i.e. the type Korg uses, i.e. Type B.
I'm fairly sure the one you're depicting above is the Korg type, and I'm also fairly certain Tony went with the Korg Type as we discussed this a long time ago when the 0 Coast first came out during a super booth, back when I was trying to get all manufacturers to adhere to the Korg Type (but failed miserably )
The pocket operator modular 16 talks to my 0-coast that suddenly has a working midi interface. Thought somebody fried it in the euro coversion but seems hè just supplied me with type B cables. Sooooo much fun but I guess that’s One for the Korg/type a list
talkboxert wrote:The pocket operator modular 16 talks to my 0-coast that suddenly has a working midi interface. Thought somebody fried it in the euro coversion but seems hè just supplied me with type B cables. Sooooo much fun but I guess that’s One for the Korg/type a list
wait what .. that thing has MIDI ?
I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT, how awesome is this. I need one now!
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Korg is correct. They have the info in the online manual: https://teenage.engineering/guides/po-modular/16
I find that super cool, still don't get why not all manufacturers publish this info.
i've started to organize structured data from this thread, along with data from my own research, and made it public domain at: https://github.com/audionerd/minimidi-data
i'll try to keep it up-to-date with this thread, but PR's are welcome, too.
also, using that dataset, i'm working on a microsite to better explain how TRS MIDI works, and to help people search for MIDI TRS type by device: https://minimidi.world
my case (Dreadbox 168) has midi inputs in TRS format. http://www.dreadbox-fx.com/modular-cases/
I dont know what standard it follows but I would guess its KORG as someone mentioned a dreadbox module that used that...
frac & 100m & eurorack (equal opportunities wiggler)
----------------------------------------------- fracmodular.github.io
oh F ME.. lol, why or why didn't i know about this thread the last few weeks after ordering 2 of the wrong midi adapters for my performer. i've been banging my head against the wall thinking my unit was busted.. actually today i was going to order a type a, but confidence was very low. glad to get confirmation i'm not doing something wrong (aside from wasting money).
oh F ME.. lol, why or why didn't i know about this thread the last few weeks after ordering 2 of the wrong midi adapters for my performer. i've been banging my head against the wall thinking my unit was busted.. actually today i was going to order a type a, but confidence was very low. glad to get confirmation i'm not doing something wrong (aside from wasting money).
I had a version of the Performer where you could switch TRS types.
oh F ME.. lol, why or why didn't i know about this thread the last few weeks after ordering 2 of the wrong midi adapters for my performer. i've been banging my head against the wall thinking my unit was busted.. actually today i was going to order a type a, but confidence was very low. glad to get confirmation i'm not doing something wrong (aside from wasting money).
I had a version of the Performer where you could switch TRS types.
definitely not something mine is capable of. i think my board is a rev done by MSW, not sure if that had any impact on the midi standard it needs, but yeah type B - the one 1010music sells, and the one on amazon for $6.99 (that doesn't specify a standard ) did not work. just ordered the korg/type A, fingers and toes crossed. i really wanna play with the arp settings on this thing (while my keystep is arping!)