MIDI Noodle · Untangle your cables
More boxes than MIDI ports?
Your USB keyboard, the vintage synth on DIN, the drum machine on the other Mac. MIDI Noodle sees all of them, names them after the gear (not the port), and routes any to any. MIDI Untangle shows you which cable goes where.
1. Name what's really there
macOS shows "MiniFuse 4 MIDI Out", not the synth plugged into it. Tell MIDI Noodle what's on each port and which channel plays what, and it shows those names on the canvas and in the wizards.
Every channel gets its own colour, so the same part looks the same wherever it shows up.
2. One DIN out, several synths
Interfaces often have one MIDI Out. Chain several synths through their MIDI Thru sockets, each on its own channel, and route each part to its channel.
The Daisy chain over DIN wizard sets it up and checks that no two synths on the chain listen on the same channel.
3. Let a wizard do the wiring
Describe my setup walks through each device: what it is, what it should play, who keeps tempo, and builds the whole patch. Add a device on a DIN port names the synth behind a port. Each wizard ends in ordinary routes you can see and edit.
When something doesn't play, Test a connection sends a note and walks through what to check, and Fix stuck notes / runaway clock finds the route that's doubling up or looping.
4. Plan the cables with MIDI Untangle
MIDI Untangle is the cable planner built into MIDI Noodle, under Help ▸ MIDI Untangle. Add your devices with the sockets they really have, say what should play what, and press Untangle!: it plugs in the fewest new cables through free sockets.
Routes with no cable path turn red; a channel that doesn't match turns orange. Select a route to light the cables it travels.
5. USB, DIN and the network
Anything the Mac sees is fair game: USB devices, DIN gear behind an interface, Bluetooth controllers once paired in Audio MIDI Setup, network sessions and devices plugged into another Mac running MIDI Noodle.
Cable a Drum Sequencer to an MPC, an Akai MPD218 or an MPK mini, and it offers that device's pad map.
Keep exploring
USB & DIN
USB gear and 5-pin DIN synths behind your interface, routed together by name and channel.
Wizards
Answer a few questions about your gear. Get working routes you can see and edit.
MIDI Untangle
Plan the physical cables before you plug in, or buy, a single box.
Other Macs
Play the synths plugged into another Mac, by their own names, over your network.
Hands on gear
One good keyboard plays all your synths: split it, switch per song, swap synths from a pad, turn real knobs.
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