Built from the same technology found in MOTU's flagship MIDI Timepiece, the MIDI Express 128 is a professional MIDI interface that provides plug-and-play connectivity to any USB-equipped Mac or Windows computer. The Express 128 provides 8 MIDI IN, 9 MIDI OUT, 128 MIDI channels and compatibility with all Macintosh and Windows software. The MIDI Express 128 takes full advantage of USB, giving you high-speed MIDI throughput, sub-millisecond timing accuracy, support for 'hot-swapping' and plug-and-play expansion. Need to connect another sound module or synth?

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Just add another MOTU USB MIDI interface via any available USB port. And the Express 128 is powered by USB – no wall wart or AC plug. No other MIDI interface offers this much value and performance at such an affordable price. Features.

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Add additional MIDI ports by plugging in another MOTU MIDI interface. Compatibility - Works with your favorite software. Includes drivers for Mac OS X and Windows.

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I have been mucking around with kontakt stand alone. And basically what happens is, if i assign midi tracks in pro tools to kontakt's virtual midi (i believe this is only on mac kontakt), and set kontakt at 32 samples. I have rock solid performance. Kontakt is set to use 8 threads. I already have a maxed out PT project, or close to. But doing this, it allows me to add a bunch more kontakt instruments, and uses cpu space outside pro tools! I am really able to make so much more out of the same cpu.

Problem is getting the sound into PT as audio. In the past, i would think soundflower could do it, but i downloaded the sierra one and i can't see any possible way to assign inputs and outputs to it. It's trickier in PT, as PT only allows one interface, you can not change nterfaces between inputs and outputs.

Is there a soundflower alternative, and a straightforward workflow to this? Where i can still monitor through my interface, but the output of the stand alone synth to whatever inter app virtual audio cable and perhaps add the input of that virtual audio cable to a new aggregate IO that pro tools can use? Do aggregate audio devices have performance penalties?

PS would really like to do this, so anyone who is using standalone VI's of any kind, please let me know how you get it into Pro tools. I am open to anything really.

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I surely find it useful. Outside PT, that is. I use it to route all audio to Bluecat Audio Patchwork to put plugins on anything that goes from my old mac pro to my interface, a apogee duet fw. This is on my sierra partition that I use for other things than PT (10). Like a dream come true.

Stand Alone Midi Port Routing Software For Mac

I finally can put a eq or compressor on when, say watching a movie with extreme lows or dynamics. I guess we'd be talking about aggregate device settings to send PT audio to Loopback, but I know nothing about that. Loopback is a very capable audio routing app, though. Just thought I'd mention it.

Well this is really what Rewire is designed to do, but I don't know that it works with Kontakt. I'm able to accomplish what you're trying to do with another computer and interface by routing the audio back into Pro Tools via ADAT. I'd be interested in seeing if it's possible to do all on one computer too.

Unfortunately rewire can not use more than one core, propellerheads confirmed this, it was never designed to multi thread. So at most, i might get one or two kontakt pads out of it. I also don't know of a daw on mac that can host vst/au plugins when in rewire slave mode. Yeah, for same computer, rewire won't work i don't think. I found sound siphon and loopback as suggested, and will see if i can create aggregate devices so that the virtual input is always on, and i'll assign my interface output to the aggregate. It may just work.

Sound siphon is commercial ware, unfortunately, and it has high ratings, but the free trial is a scam, there is no such thing. You download it and HAVE to pay the $39 for outputs. Only inputs can be trialled. And it adds noise lol. Maybe loopback if it has a demo.

Will check it all out. Cheers PS if i get a new computer and keep my imac, yes it will be easy to do it with a second machine. I'd just get a standalone program like patchwork and put it at ultra low buffer, and use a cheap multi channel interface going into the Apollo. I know it can be done that way. And i could compensate with pro tools record offset very easily, as of course that won't be sample accurate. But i really want to sell the imac and have only one desktop.

Space available is an issue also. PPS i suppose VEP is the answer for doing it fully integrated on the same machine, i saw a video with pro tools expert adding spectrasonics stuff to ve pro and it's not impacting pro tools performance at all. But that's not a cheap program. More than i paid for pro tools! I did this for years by hosting VI's in Reaper and Rewiring them into PT from the instruments individual outputs.

Reaper is basically free if you don't mind a nag window. Rewire is a transport protocol. It does not make sense to say if its 'single or multi threaded'. Its ONLY job is get something from point 'a' to point 'b'.

ALL the processing done through the rewire stream is stacked onto one core. You could rewire reaper, ableton, numerology, etc into the rewire master, and all would compound and stack onto one core, including whatever plugins you use inside them. I'll take propellerheads' word on it over yours thanks very much. Why on earth did i even bother to unmute and view the post, just in case, after weeks of muting, you had written something useful. Nope, it was just an instant go at trying to correct me, um, incorrectly by the way. Just like your answers in my motherboard topic, where you didn't understand about the mmcss going to kernel level in windows 10 and being limited to 32 logical cores, so attacked my intelligence instead as a reply.

Of course, i spoke to a guru at length, and he said my question in that topic was well put and a very fair question to ask. Back to mute. One second chance was too much in this case. Get off your high horse.