LGR - Building the MIDI RackMountain (Patreon)
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EDIT: Added another two minutes of footage starting at 43:37! I redid the Doom gameplay with a direct line out recording instead of microphone audio, and then followed that up with a section showing how much it weighs and how it can pack up into basically a piece of luggage. Complete with a portability demonstration with me rolling it down a paved road like a doofus 😁
https://youtu.be/bQn3SyDh2Xo
So here's a video I've wanted to do for a few years now! I've been slowly accruing components ever since finishing the original MIDI Mountain back in 2017, and after recently finding a rack-mount Roland MT-32 I figured it was finally time to put it all together.
The core idea is the same as the original MIDI Mountain: take a bunch of MIDI modules and combine them with some audio/MIDI switchers to make a mountain of musical goodness. But instead of just stacking it all on top of each other, this time we're putting it in an 8U rack-mount gear case. And with the extra room I've taken the opportunity to make a few excellent upgrades, like a proper audio mixer, an 8-port MIDI thru box, a clicky power strip, and an fourth General MIDI synth. Also a stupid equalizer, ha. Why stupid? Yeah you'll see.
Anyway, I hope you have half as much fun watching as I did putting this together! This'll be an enjoyable beast to whip out whenever I feel the urge to play some fancy MIDI tunes on an old PC or whatever, and I've already got plans to tweak a few things in the future. Lemme know whatcha think!