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One DAW that is important to me can not handle two units at the same time… Cakewalk SONAR X3 my n✡ Software for Music Production… how lucky am i right? Well, although this product seems to work fine when using two units at the same time – MidiQuest (main reason to buy this)/Midi-OX/Most of my Standalone Software Synths/Almost all Virtual Midi Routing software, all run perfect with two units at the same time, even most of the DAWs i tested work fine with two units, there´s just one that does NOT. But wait, in the topic title it says “+ some tricks”, why is that?

Let me point out that i am not in any way endorsed by or affiliated with Miditech or anyone who sells this product, i´m just writing this because i had it for some months now and i have to recommend it. Just plugged both, did the basic software configuration (routings from Midiquest to all my devices) and voilá!

#4x4 midi patchbay pro

Spent a great deal of time using it with Midiquest and Midi-OX had no problem working with both at the same time with Windows 8.1 Pro 圆4.

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Ok i will need two usb ports instead of one but HEY! i can live with that…Īlso it looks decent, its not a plastic piece, it´s actually a full metal body, there´s leds flashing all over and it works!! MIDITECH Midiface 4×4 costs 49€ each! Yeah you guessed it, you buy two and you get 8 ports for less then 100€, nothing beats this price! So lets look at the cheap stuff, maybe it works right? Well guess what it does, wonderfully…. So why would i want to pay 450€ for 8 MIDI IN / OUT ports? Here comes the problem, i started looking at the prices and i was a bit disappointed, hardware wise i know pretty much what´s inside, the components for this are UBBER CHEAP. The thing with uploading and downloading stuff using MIDI is it needs MIDI in Both ways, In and Out, so if you like to always have everything ready you will need something like a Midi Patchbay or a Midi USB interface.Īnd let me tell you, if you have all your devices connected to your DAW using MIDI IN and OUT you can do a lot of fun using your DAW for routing, adding patchchanges to your projects, sending sysex stuff, it´s a world of geekness that opens up.

One of my favorite apps to organize my different Synth patches/setups/settings is Midiquest Pro, it just works, i can upload and download all my patches from all my gear, i use it with my JV2080, Korg03RW, Nord Lead, Novation Nova, and so on… it works and it´s easy, just how i like it. There´s even another weird fact, sometimes when i have a keyboard USB connected to my laptop and it´s Audio Outs to my Firewire card there´s some “ground loop” noise going on, it goes away if i disconnect the USB, never even lost time trying to figure this out, i just rather use MIDI. Modern gear will have USB for this, but i do not even like the idea of a single keyboard or sound module to take one of my USB ports, there´s also the fact that 75% of my gear does not have USB (they call it “old” i think, but guess what i still love that gear).

#4x4 midi patchbay Patch

This solution is not optimal, specially if you, like me, like to organize patch libraries, backups, and such. When you have a good amount of gear that use MIDI you start to have a hard time finding a MIDI-to-USB solution that is capable of handling everything.įor a long time i used only MIDI chains, you know, from Audio Card MIDI Out to First Keyboard MIDI In then from that keyboard MIDI Thru to the next keyboard In and so on.