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Hiya,

I've been finding it really difficult to source a supplier of MIDI thru boxes in the UK! Maybe I haven't been using the right search keywords or something.

Anyway, stumbled across Kenton Electronics through an old friend of mine and found their 'thru 5'. £45, +a pretty £7.50 shipping, +VAT at 20% brought the total to £63 - no idea if that's a good price or not, but having not found anything else I took the plunge and ordered one late Friday night. It arrived this morning (Tuesday).

Looks very nice and small and works as expected. A shame it needs a power supply but I guess that can't be helped. Would highly recommend it to anyone on the lookout for such a device.

http://www.kentonuk.com/products/items/ ... ru-5.shtml

Hi,

in the past I was very satisfied with this one: http://www.thomann.de/gb/midi_solutions_quadra_thru.htm
Normally, it is powered via MIDI-IN.

Now I am using M-Audio MIDISport 4X4 that I bought second-hand for the price of the Quadra-THRU
It works very fine - my 4 MIDI sources are now connected in both ways with the PC/DAW.

If you're handy with a soldering iron, you can even make your own MIDI Thru cable (with, for example, 5 outputs)

Add a power supply and few cheap electronic components and you can make something that cleans up the MIDI signal before sending it on.

One big plus of a proper MIDI Thru box (in comparison to chaining equipment in series by using the Thru ports) is that the timing stays tight; this can especially be an issue with percussive sounds. With every piece of equipment the MIDI signal goes through (especially with software MIDI 'thru' functionality, like on the Stage 2) the timing of the MIDI signal gets slightly worse.