Hello

Am 03.01.2014 12:32, schrieb blair_cowan@... :

> 1. Does it matter that my two Dark Energy's are different models, or
> will this prevent the link from working

No they both are base on the same MIDI interface. All the differences
between I and II are clearly marked in the web page for the DE II
( http://www.doepfer.de/Dark_Energy_II_e.htm: "In the following
description of the Dark Energy II the differences to Dark Energy I are
marked blue")

> 2. If there is no problem with my two Dark Energy's being different
> models, does it matter which is the 'master' and which is the 'slave'

Yes and No. "No" because it will not matter, which of those two is
master and which is slave. But "Yes" because the master is the one which
sends on JP5 and the slave is the one which receives on JP6. So you have
to care to use the right jumper on each machine.

> 3. I will be accessing both using the same midi channel. Do I still
> need to put the 'master' machine into Stack Mode

Yes. The real trick of the stack mode happens on the masters MIDI
interface. This interface removes the note info which it uses for itself
from the MIDI stream and forwards only all other notes to the slave. For
the slave it does not matter.

> 4. Will the 'slave' machine automatically inherit the midi receive
> channel from the 'master machine', or will I need to program it using
> the Learn function

You have to programm it with the learn function. This is necessary
because you may want to use the two machines also on separate channels
as individual monosynths.

> The Technical Information documents do not go down to this lev el of
> detail, and perhaps they should.

It goes down to there. I don't own a Dark Time and took all info from
the documents:
Darktime 1: http://www.doepfer.de/pdf/Dark_Energy_technical_information.pdf
Darktime 2:
http://www.doepfer.de/pdf/Dark_Energy_II_technical_information.pdf
Of yourse you need a general knowledge about MIDI. But you can't blame
doepfer that they don't add a full midi compendium to their manuals.

Florian