Miditech 4merge USB

It does what I expect it to do and that is merging 4 midi signal to one. It requires usb power.

I have midi clock running trough 4 midi equipment with short midi cables. The fourth midi equipment have always reseived signals clearly. I put this merge box to add keyboard midi for the fourth equipment. This way the fourh equipment on chain receives midi clock and keyboard midi.

The signal chain is one equipment longer than adivised, but everything has worked fine with other equipments. Miditech 4merge has crashed 3 times. Result has been horrific. When it crash it mix all kinds of midi signals, including erase commands to few equipment behind it. And of course, the synth is screaming weird stuff. After power boot, it works fine again.

So if you by this one, it seems to work fine if midi signal chain is not too long. If it is more than 3 equipment, you better forget this product. I still use this product, but in other section of midi chain and it works fine now.

EDIT:Had to come back and change the review. This box is constantly failing. I used this box between Arturia Keystep, extra keyboard and Novation Laptop. This box cannot be used in live situations as it randomly goes to mode where it creates it's own midi signals and changes the ones you play. You have to boot it and then send "all notes of" to clear synths from creating weird noises. And this happens now with short midi cables. Weird as I have Miditech midi splitter/filther and it has never failed. This box can really ruin your show in worst kind of way. But I'm not sure if this is just a faulty unit that I have here.

Olen elektronisen musan harrastelija ja käytän tietsikkaa ainoastaan äänitteen taltiointiin. Käytössäni on useita midiohjaimia (kiippareita, pedaaleja) ja syntsamoduleja.
Halutessani laajentaa omaa ilmaisuani ja ruveta käyttämään yhtäaikaisesti useampia ohjaimia, jouduin hankkimaan usealla midisisääntulolla varustetun mergeboxin.

Päädyin hankkimaan Miditechin sen halpuuden vuoksi. Se onkin toiminut moitteetta, vaikka välillä kaikki neljä sisääntuloa ovat olleet käytössä.
Laite on kohtuullisen jämäkkä rakenteeltaan eikä vie paljoa tilaa.
Pienenä miinuksena, virransyöttö tapahtuu USB-liitännän kautta. Itselläni homma on hoitunut pikkuisen verkkoon kytkettävän USB-laturin kautta.

Miditech 4merge USB gets easily confused by my MIDI controller keyboard when I switch configurations (maybe it sends SysEx that ain't handled well or maybe it gets overrun by a flood of too many MIDI messages at once, I wouldn't know). Workaround: I keep the box near to me to reboot it (unplug-replug), thanks to the long MIDI cables I happen to own.

Otherwise, for the time I used it, it worked well handling usual MIDI messages (including but not limited to note off, note on (w/ velocity), poly touch (good!), expression).