The YME8 is a midi expander very well done from Yamaha, very useful in the studio live and to me more than once troubleshoot!
Very solid metal housing, 12V DC external power supply

carracteristiques:

MIDI IN 2 (switchable)
8 MIDI OUT

UTILIZATION

Simplified Deployment and permissive. Numerous possibilities for routing signals or, in fact the two are switchable MIDI IN which allows two separate signals at the same time IN:

Example can conf
- Routed to the IN 1 1-8 / 2 OFF IN
- IN 2 routed to the 1 to 8 / 1 IN OFF
- Routed to the IN 1 OUT 1 to 4 / 2 routed to the IN OUT 5-8
- Routed to the IN 2 OUT 1 to 4 / 1 routed to the IN OUT 5-8
- Etc.

no single default MIDI Merge

- The

OVERALL OPINION

I use the YME8 for 5 years and he more than once troubleshoot.
now live I use a smaller box 1 through 4, because it does not need power supply, but even I qd
YME8 under the bottom rack in case u ....