I have a iConnectivity mioXL and love all that it can do.
In my GP Rig Manager or the OPTIONS menu>MIDI Input Ports, I can see all 8 of the DIN and HST MIDI inputs. No problem here.
The problem comes with the MIDI output ports. The mioXL has 12 MIDI DIN outputs but GP only sees 8 of them. There are also 10 HST (USB) outputs and GP only sees 8 of them.
Has anyone else experienced this? Or does anyone know how I can get all the MIDI DIN outputs to be recognized in GP? I’m not really too worried about the 2 missing HST outputs as I don’t have that many outs that I need them, but it would be nice to find those too.
5-pin MIDI DIN connections are not “ports” in the computer sense so no computer would be able to see them so unless the mioXL explicitly exposes them internally as individual ports via its USB connection, it probably can’t be done. You should really ask iConnectivity about this.
What’s confusing on the mio interfaces is that the manufacturer labels the USB-to-DAW ports with the name of the actual hardware input that is routed to it as a default setting.
On the XL, for example, you get 16 USB ports visible to the computer. 8 of those are called “DIN1…DIN8” and 8 are called “HST1…HST8”. However, these are just names to “make the default routing clearer”.
So what you actually need to do as a solution is use the Auracle control software and route the desired hardware inputs to the desired ports that the computer will see - optionally you can rename them to reflect your choice.
The outputs work the same way: use Auracle to route any of the visible USB ports to any of the hardware outputs.
I use mioXL as well and Florian is right. DIN 9-12 don’t get presented to the computer per se. They are meant more for 1:many outbound traffic - for example, sending one midi beat clock source to several targets. I use 9-12 to send clock to a few hw synths. This gives better performance than chaining midi out/thru ports.