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How to Use a MIDI Merge Box

Connecting multiple Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) devices can be confusing. Especially if you are sending different MIDI signals to the same destination, you may not have enough MIDI ports for the job. MIDI merge boxes were designed to account for this situation. A MIDI merge box combines multiple MIDI data streams into one, so that they can be sent to another device or set of devices.

Things You'll Need

  • MIDI cables
  • MIDI device(s)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Connect a separate MIDI cable to the "MIDI Out" port of each MIDI device you wish to merge.

    • 2

      Connect the cable from each device's MIDI Out to a "MIDI In" port on the MIDI merge box.

    • 3

      Connect a cable to the merge box's "MIDI Out" ports. Depending on how many devices you wish to send the signal to, you may only need one cable.

    • 4

      Connect the cable from the "MIDI Out" of the merge box to the "MIDI In" of the destination device. The destination device will receive all MIDI data from your devices as if it were coming from one device.

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