MRCC 880 help please

[Morro24]

Purchased MRCC 880 to connect the following equipment:

Arturia AstroLab
Arturia Minifreak
Native Instruments Maschine Plus
Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 Audio Interface
Kali Audio IN-5 Speakers

All the Equipment works great and we have sound out of the speakers through the Scarlett.

I need help though with the MRCC 880 and midi setup so all the three hardware stuff above work together.

1. Do you route all MIDI OUT from the 3 devices to the MIDI IN into MRCC 880?
2. Do you route all MIDI IN from the 3 devices to the MIDI OUT into MRCC 880?

I don’t then understand what the MiDI settings should be for each individual piece of hardware, it’s frying my brain.

Would also like to know if i got the FIRMWARE installation right?

The 1st time after I followed the instructions and I put pin into the machine it went green to input no 4 permanently.

I did not think this was right so started the process again and when I put the pin into the the machine it flashed colours went green and blue from 1_8 and stayed on in no 1 green.

So i don't know if this worked or unit is working?

Help would be more than appreciated.

[Darryl]

Hello, first thing is we should make sure the MRCC 880 is working correctly. There are no firmware updates for the MRCC 880, so I don't know what you tried to install.

If when powered on it is stuck on Input 4 LED, then the firmware is messed up somehow. If it boots to Input 1 LED, and pressing Input 2, 3 or 4 changes the input, you are good to go. It sounds like it is working if it lights the LEDs in sequence and lights Input 1 LED when it is booted up.

Darryl

[Darryl]

Purchased MRCC 880 to connect the following equipment:

Arturia AstroLab
Arturia Minifreak
Native Instruments Maschine Plus
Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 Audio Interface
Kali Audio IN-5 Speakers

All the Equipment works great and we have sound out of the speakers through the Scarlett.

I need help though with the MRCC 880 and midi setup so all the three hardware stuff above work together.

1. Do you route all MIDI OUT from the 3 devices to the MIDI IN into MRCC 880?
2. Do you route all MIDI IN from the 3 devices to the MIDI OUT into MRCC 880?

I don’t then understand what the MiDI settings should be for each individual piece of hardware, it’s frying my brain.

Would also like to know if i got the FIRMWARE installation right?

The 1st time after I followed the instructions and I put pin into the machine it went green to input no 4 permanently.

I did not think this was right so started the process again and when I put the pin into the the machine it flashed colours went green and blue from 1_8 and stayed on in no 1 green.

So i don't know if this worked or unit is working?

Help would be more than appreciated.

Routing your gear:
In general, as you only have 4 inputs, you want to connect the MIDI outputs from MIDI controllers to the Inputs of the 880. So that would be, whichever MIDI device you want to use to control other MIDI devices.
The Atrolab is your best keyboard, so you definetly want to use that as a MIDI controller for the things that make sound.
If you use Machine as a sequencer for other devices, you might need to connect to Input and Output of the 880. So connect the Machine MIDI out to 880 MIDI in. And Machine MIDI In to 880 MIDI out. Don't route Machine MIDI in to Machine MIDI out, you will create a MIDI feedback loop.
Connect the Minifreak to 880 MIDI out and use the Astrolab and Machine to play it.

I don't see any reason to connect the Focusrite or speakers to the MIDI interface.