I want to connect 2 midi keyboards to my UR44 interface,Can somehow both of them work together?
It would be helpful if you tell us what model of keyboard they are, and also whether you use the onboard sounds of those keyboards.
But I’ll start the ball rolling…
If you purely wish for both keyboards to output midi to the 44’s single midi in, then hopefully one of those keyboards has a 5-pin midi out/through. Somewhere in the settings you will be able to turn the ‘through’ on and off. Turn ‘through’ on.
This is then the keyboard you connect to the 44. Let’s call it Keyboard 1. Then connect the midi ‘out’ of the other keyboard to the midi ‘in’ of keyboard 1. Both keyboards can now output midi to the 44.
For the return, connect the 44’s midi ‘out’ to the midi ‘in’ of keyboard 2.
Keyboard 2 will require a shared out/through midi ‘out’. Connect this to the midi ‘in’ of keyboard 1.
Hopefully both keyboards have this switchable out/through function. If only one has that, then that one has to be keyboard 1. If neither have the out/through option, then you will be requiring a midi-merge box. I like the old Philip Rees boxes. You can find used examples on eBay easily.
If that’s the case, then you would need a midi-splitter box to trigger both keyboards from the 44. This method then lets you do Sysex dumps, firmware revisions, and enable editing software on both to be used successfully.
If both keyboards have out/through midi sockets, then you won’t need other boxes. You can simply daisy-chain the keyboards in any order, and make sure the ‘midi through’ option is enabled on both keyboards.
Hope that helps
Hello and thank you for reply.1 is m audio keystation 88 and 2 is native a25 small midi