mioXL and MODALapp

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I just bought a Modal Electronics Cobalt8M. I’ve connected it to the MioXL (HST 7). However, when I launch MODALapp, it doesn’t connect to the Cobalt8M. Of course, it works if I connect the USB cable directly to my Mac.

My question is: can I configure the MioXL so that MODALapp can connect to the Cobalt8M?

I asked AI:

  1. MODALapp needs direct USB-MIDI access to the Cobalt8M’s USB device.

  2. MioXL only passes standard MIDI, not vendor-specific USB protocol that MODALapp relies on.

  3. So, even though the Cobalt8M is plugged into the MioXL USB Host port (HST 7), MODALapp can’t see it.

So I’m guessing it’s not possible. It doesn’t really matter, just curious if it can be solved in a simple way.

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It is indeed not possible. I discussed the idea before with Iconnectivity, but let’s say it’s one or the other : or MioXL behaves as a MIDI router, or it behaves as a USB hub.

For now they’ve opted only to offer the MIDI connectivity only.

For those instruments where I desparately want to have direct USB access on the PC, I connect their DIN-MIDI ports to the MioXL, so both connections coexist without bothering each other.

For all others and when possible (for instance the Novation Summit) I connect their USB to the MioXL and occasionally swap it for a direct USB connection to the PC when I want to do an upgrade or a wavetable upload. It doesn’t bother me too much.

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I do the same thing. You just have to accept to have billions of cables. What a shame though that iconnectivity cannot commit to do both. It drives me crazy.

What is the reasoning behind it? Is it hardware limitations? Is there a brand that is able to do midi and USB hub at the same time?

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I just use one USB cable to update all my instruments. It’s long enough to reach them all :slight_smile:

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It’s a midi interface, not a USB hub. Lots of vendors do proprietary things over usb which the Mio cannot know of. I’m not aware of any midi interface which can do that

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