Midi Sampler Question Options

[pinemarten3]

So, I'm totally new with the whole MIDI thing. Been using mostly analogue keyboards etc. It's gotten to the point where I just can't take all this stuff to shows anymore. So I'm thinking about getting a sampler (AKAI S2000, EMU ESI2000 something like that).

Here's my question, can I, using MIDI, run two keyboards into one sampler (with only one MIDI input) and play different parts on them? Do I need some sort of MIDI mixer?

Basically what I'm trying to do is replace a main keyboard with piano/string type sounds and a little MOOG synth, which I play during different parts of the same song. The idea being that I don't want to switch out MIDI ins for two separate controllers duing the middle of a song.

As I said, I'm completely new to this, so please be gentle.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[ryosode]

I use M1 and Oxygen8 together. The way I do it is fairly tricky, but in a nutshell, what you should do is to have Oxygen8 connected to your master keyboard's MIDI Thru port. then MIDI output from your master key goes into the sampler. Just know that Oxygen8 and the master key need to transmit on different MIDI channels and you need to setup your sampler to accept those MIDI channels and set it up so the desired result will be achieved.... or something like that. Good luck.