I have a simple Kawai MAV-8 4x8 midi patchbay, and I love it. But one thing it doesn't have is midi filtering (channel blocking.) This is nice when you're sequencing to more than one multitimbral synth and want only one channel to play. My Mav-8 sends all channels to whatever output you select. In a recording session I run some synths thru this old patcher...a great way the blend keyboards and modules as controllers or sound modules with the four "ins" for controller hardware, and eight "outs" to send mide to...or mute, whatever it calls for in your recording set up.

"on the midi front". Later modules from various manufacturers could do much more as patchbay,
but this is still a nice approach for controlling/combining and switching away, on all your hardware sounds.
sounds. This is all very confusing for a guy that'll be 79 years old on Friday

Yamaha...Motif ES-8, Motif Rack, CS6X
Korg...Karma,Triton Classic, PA-80, M-1+
AkaiSampler-S5000, Roland.. X5080 Rack/G-1000 Arranger
Various Guitars/Basses Amps Pedals Rec.Equip.


Plus, BIAB 2015 and Sonar Platinum 2015 Upgrade from Cakewalk's Sonar X-3