MIDI Noodle · USB & DIN
USB and DIN, in one patch.
A modern USB keyboard, a groovebox on USB, and a vintage synth on your interface's 5-pin MIDI Out. MIDI Noodle routes them to each other as if they all used the same kind of cable.
Your DIN gear gets a name
macOS can see your interface, but not what's plugged into it. To the Mac, your Juno is just "MiniFuse 4 · MIDI Out".
The Add a device on a DIN port wizard asks what's on the socket (a synth, drum machine, controller or groovebox) and which channel it listens on. From then on the port shows the device after an arrow, the way MIDI flows, everywhere in the app.
Sockets on your USB gear, too
Plenty of USB keyboards and synths have MIDI sockets of their own, and a synth cabled to one is just as playable as one behind an interface. Name it the same way, from the port's DIN sockets section in the inspector.
MIDI Noodle already knows the sockets on some common gear, so a MicroLab with none doesn't offer one, and a KeyLab Essential with only an Out offers just that. For anything else, a DIN sockets switch in the port's inspector, or in the device's sheet in Settings › Devices, says whether it has them. It's set per device, so every port on it follows.
Channels with names, not numbers
Give each channel of a port a name: the part it plays or the device listening on it. Two devices on one port each bring their own channel names, so you route to "Drums" rather than to channel 2.
Several synths on one MIDI Out
Many interfaces have a single DIN Out. Chain your synths through their Thru sockets, set each one to its own channel, and one port plays them all.
The Daisy chain over DIN wizard walks through it and checks for two devices on the same channel before anything is built.
Set up once, used in every project
Your USB and DIN devices live in Settings › Devices, so every project knows them. Edit a device there and open projects follow.
USB Devices
Every USB device macOS knows, with a suggested setup for common gear.
DIN Devices
The synths on your interface's sockets, listed under the interface they're plugged into.
Always send
A one-channel synth gets its channel, so a cable can't play it on the wrong one.
Device colours
Give a device a colour and its notes use it across the canvas.
Keep exploring
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