Amiga + Roland SC88 Pro

[salax54]

As the SC88 has two MIDI in ports, i'd try using it as two different MIDI instruments connected to the Amiga. But that all depends on how many OUT ports your MIDI interface has. There's a few Amiga interfaces that have 2 or 3 MIDI out ports out there. Use a sequencing software such as Music-X or Dr. T's and assign two seperate channels to your two MIDI ports of the SC. Don't go for a tracker program just yet, as they tend to be akward on the MIDI part. There used to be an editor/librarian named Midi Quest that supported the SC55 module, but it stopped Amiga releases long ago, and i'm not sure it would cooperate with the SC88 although the 55 and 88 are both GM units..

[salax54]

As for hooking two separate MIDI cables between the Amiga and the instrument, as some have suggested - I don't think that will work either.  What would the point be?  The interface would still transmit the same signal containing all 16 MIDI channels on both cables. Your instrument is merely set to "filter" each incoming channel to a separate patch/control within itself. My interface has three outputs, but they all just output the same MIDI signal.  Even on an interface with only one output such as yours, you can still have different parts of a song assigned to different MIDI channels, and have, for instance, a flute playing all the channel 1 notes, and a drum playing all the channel 10 notes, etc, etc. etc.

I actually suggested he tried it out, dunno the capabilities of the SC88 to insist on this. Even on single port MIDI interfaces you could assign tracks to different MIDI channels like you said, but if the cable only ends on the specific module, i guess the module would have to support that function.
Ok, just had a peek through the user's manual. Port A and Port B are assigned 16 different instruments. A1-A16 and B1-B16. These can also be 'flipped' to have sounds from bank A play through Port B and vice-versa.
Interesting machine nevertheless!