Not much has been said about this little device. I heard about it deep in another thread. It is shipping now. It has some features that differ from the Blokas that has yet to ship, so I thought it should have its own thread. Mods, feel free to throw this elsewhere if needed.
Mine arrived two days ago, and it’s really a life saver. Granted, the only hardware midi utility I had before this is a 1-4 splitter.
I’m running all MIDI in and out with some filters on a few outputs, and I’m hosting a controller over USB. I haven’t used it as an interface, just in my hardware setup.
My use case:
USB hosting: Faderfox UC4 midi in/out (using USB, because there are only 2 MIDI ins)
Midi ins: Octatrack, Morningstarfx MC6 (pedal)
Midi outs:
Octatrack (filtering out midi 9-16, as I was getting some cross talk and loops in the midi channels)
Moog Minitaur
MIDI to TRS Midi box for tabletop midi pedals
Morningstar MC6 > Eventide H9s
Boomerang III (receiving clock)
I can now, all at once, send OT LFOs to my H9s, arm record trigs on the OT with my foot (as well as send a variety of CCs for whatever), control some quick parameters on my H9s with the faderfox or mc6, other things I’m not thinking about just now.
It’s really eye opening to see the benefit of not just a splitter, but merging, routing, filtering. It’s the most robust thing I’ve done with midi, and I feel like I’m in very early understanding.
Lasly, these things are pretty cost effective, and they have a package that comes with 4 1.5m TRS to DIN midi cables, so you don’t have to order a ton of TRS Midi A dongles.