iConnectivityInterface with 4 in x 4 Out 5-pin DIN-MIDI Ports (mioXM)

I recently started moving from performing with hardware synths to virtual synths and wanted to clean up my keyboard rig by putting my computer and audio interface backstage. With this single device I can power my USB controllers and send a single CAT6 cable to backstage to send the MIDI to my rack with my computer. There is no perceivable latency. Your sound card would have far more latency than a LAN network anyway.My only knock on this device is that, like so many others, it has a big wall art to power the unit. It would be cool it could be powered by POE to. If you pair this device with iConnectivity's PlayAudio12 or PlayAudio 1U, you have a very powerful solution for stage performance with computers, controllers for the whole band.

The mio-xc is a basic MIDI interface with no bells and whistles. It's class-compliant, so needs no drivers, which is great. I had an older maudio uno before this, that is no longer supported on OSX since they removed 32bit support. That this is USB-C should future proof it for some time. Comes with a USB-C -> USB-A dongle.Plugged it in, Ableton saw it immediately, and can send messages just fine.Honestly, about as perfect a solution as there is for basic MIDI needs.

There are many less expensive MIDI interface products, but I wanted one that reviewers noted would work with USB-C and the older USB-A connections. This one does both types and I have had no problems using different machines (Mac laptops). I have been using this with an old Yamaha Clavinova to do online piano lessons (using a popular program). No problems whatsoever. Is plug and play. Cord is USB-C but they provide an adapter for USB-A. There may be less expensive options that accomplish the same thing, but I didn't want to experiment and potentially waste my time.

I purchased this MIDI hub because my old MOTU Micro Express still does not work with Mac OSX Big Sur. Everything works flawless and is really easy to set up, both in the context of a computer/DAW setup, as well as stand alone with a drum machine setting the clock.USB hubs can be tricky, and as a result I had much of my modern gear hooked up via DIN, no longer. The USB host with 8 ports on this device is saving me a lot of cables.The device comes with an external power supply (slight minus) that takes both 110V and 220V.Highly recommended.

Amazed I found this connector. Bought my super fast M1 MacBook Pro for graphics but occasionally like to play with GarageBand. Still had my old Oxy8 but thought for certain I'd need a new keyboard. After I started searching I found complaints from users that suddenly had problems with midi devices with the new M1 macs. Thankfully one user posted on a forum about the mioXC. From what I can figure out, this device bypasses the typical USB output and uses the midi ports instead. No drivers required. I thought, what the heck, maybe it will work with my ancient keyboard. It does! Here's the thing... there is a magic trick. If you plug in the midi connectors logically to your keyboard (like I did) and nothings working, try swapping the connectors from the mioXC to your keyboard. Imagine this: I'm using my 18+ year old Midiman Oxygen 8 Keyboard with my new M1 mac... no drivers!

In hindsight, I should have bought the larger MIO XL instead of this XM half-rack size version. I say this because only four re-callable presets are not nearly enough for my setup and needs. Constantly re-configuring the MIDI I/Os in the Auracle software is annoying, whereas the larger XL version has 32 presets and that would have been better for me. I will come back to the software in a moment. But the two reasons I bought this little box is that 1) I needed "USB host" functionality (meaning, I don't need to connect a piece of gear to my PC at all, e.g.a Korg Nanopad requires a USB host or PC connection to work), and 2) this was reduced on Amazon Warehouse by about a third in price, and I thought, "What the heck, I'll give it a whirl."As background, I do not use DAWs, i.e. I do not work "in-the-box" (ITB). I prefer hardware synth gear and sequencers, as I'm somewhat old-school inclined. Much of my gear is vintage, with MIDI 5-pin MIDI connections only, but I have a good deal of newer gear that can use USB for MIDI. And what I wanted was to reduce the "spaghetti" of cabling and utilize USB connections for my newer gear. In that regard, the Mio XM has certainly helped. As for my PC, I really only use it to update firmware for my newer gear, so I often need to connect via USB for that task.Stability and latency-wise, the Mio XM is superb. I've had no problems sending MIDI data between synths, no noticeable delays and it just works every time you turn it on. This is why I've given it a 3.5 rating (or 4 stars, since we still cannot give 1/2 stars). It also stores your very-limited four presets in the hardware unit itself, so once you get that configured, you don't need to run the Auracle software again, unless you're like me and you need to re-route things all the time. I'm also using a powered USB hub for some of my synths connections to the Mio XM, and I've had no issues with that either. The MIO recognizes all of them in its Auracle software, and you can reserve USB ports for particular gear, rename them if you'd like. That's been mostly flawless.The worst thing about this MIDI router is the Auracle software. If the manufacturer would like to contact me about how the interface can be improved, by all means, please do (I promise to be kind and polite, or at least more kind than I will be in this review). Because I don't know who designed and who approved the software UI, but it's painfully obvious that there was practically no attempt to get real life user feedback on it before releasing it into the wild. Gosh, could it be more obtuse? Honestly, it didn't take me long to work it out, maybe a minute or two since I do have many decades of experience with MIDI routers, but it's not intuitive or user-friendly in the slightest. It is unnecessarily confusing and could be made much simpler to use.I've added two screen caps of the software. One image -- the mostly blank one -- is what you see (after configuration) when you first click on the MIDI Routing button on the home screen. The second image is after clicking on one of your pieces of gear in the USB Hosted Device / Instrument section.And do you what's missing from both of these screens? Well, I tell you so you don't have to guess: The PRESET I'm working on. Seriously, folks, which preset is it? One, two, three or four? C'mon! That's rubbish! Do you know how many times I've accidentally edited the wrong preset? Oh, I'm aware that the hardware itself shows me which preset it is set to... that's all well and good, when I'm selecting the preset from the box itself. But when I'm in the software, I'd really like to see which preset I'm using on the screen, and on EVERY screen! This is not rocket science. This is basic UI stuff. How about a real quick overview of your overall connection setup???Here's another problem with the software: Why do we need to change to an entirely different screen to get into the MIDI filtering section? Why can't that be something you do on the MIDI Routing screen, where it makes sense to have it? It can be a popup, maybe? It's also a shame that we can't "draw" lines for our connections between gear, and instead we have to manually select buttons. Finally, we can't hide things we don't need to see... for example, I'm not using the RTP Networking functionality. I've turned it off on one screen, but it still shows up on the MIDI Routing screen, and it's waste of screen real estate when it's not being used -- I could use that space for MIDI filtering -- ya know??? At least let us collapse the view on that column...I realize I'm moaning quite a bit about the software, maybe that's unfair since it actually does the job it should do, but my moaning is only because I am limited to four presets and I have to go into it all the time to reconfigure my MIDI routings, and every time I do I get really annoyed at how rubbish the Auracle UI is. Am I being too harsh? Maybe. If I had got the Mio XL instead, I'd probably moan a great deal less, but I'd still complain. These are fairly pricey pieces of gear. The software should be better than it is.As a personal wishlist item: How about the ability to send MIDI program changes to your gear basis when selecting presets? How about the MIO changing its own presets when it receives a program change message on a certain MIDI channel? My thirty-plus-year-old JLCooper MSB+ does both of those things easily (it does everything easily, actually)... The Mio XM and XL are modern routers, and yet it lacks this basic MIDI capability? What a shame.On the other hand, this is a plug-and-play, class compliant device, and it shows up in Windows 10 just fine. Installing the software is simple, although do I really need to install audio drivers for a device that doesn't handle audio? I'm going with: Nope, it doesn't. But it does...I hope IConnectivity reads this review. This is a great little box, superb data transfer and well-built and solid, but the software UI needs a serious rethink and a rework. I get that Auracle is also used for multiple products, but even so, it's painful on a good day. The lack of a current preset number on all but one of your screens is unforgivable. Otherwise, I quite like that I can easily connect USB and 5-pin MIDI gear without using a software router on my PC, such as the ancient MIDI-OX. I did say I was old-school... :)

J’ai acheté Mio XM un très bon produit pour ma configuration midi

Diseñada para facilitar la interconexión de varios instrumentos MIDI, Es muy útil para músicos que requieren conectar varios instrumentos MIDI y tener un control por Software de esa red.Es una interfaz versatil.

Dieses Gerät überzeugt auf ganzer Länge!!! Mit der einfach zu bedienenden Software lässt sich jeder Kanal mit jedem anderen verbinden. Wirklich fantastisch! Gute Verarbeitung, zuverlässig. Ich vermisse eigent nur einen Einschalter

Using with Nuendo 10, works flawless

Not happy about this product, doe not have audio pass thru as advertised by some specialized music gear websites. Or I could not discover how to configure it. The manual, which is very light in providing information, to say the least, does not say anything about it. Hardware build gives the impression of an amateur product. The tiny display is rattling inside the case, not sure how long it is going to last. There is a video on youtube posted by one user at the request of the manufacturer with components rattling inside the unit, because they were not properly soldered. My mistake I purchased this unit, that video should have ring some bells.