What USB hardware is supported?

First post -- hi there

Can you tell me what hardware is supported on the USB ports? Specifically, what about multiport MIDI and audio interfaces? I have both of these (MIDIsport 8x8, Behringer UFX1604), and would love to be able to use them with the Live.

bjoerngiesler wrote:First post -- hi there

Can you tell me what hardware is supported on the USB ports? Specifically, what about multiport MIDI and audio interfaces? I have both of these (MIDIsport 8x8, Behringer UFX1604), and would love to be able to use them with the Live.

Here is the link to the official akai pro customer community forum
http://community.akaipro.com/akai_professional

First thing you see at the top right corner is, Akai Professional employees are here to help.

Lampdog wrote:If you have them can't you try?

I think this is one of those, I got to be sure it works. Before I buy situation

That's exactly the thing. I would like to know before I buy; not really into the buy - try - send back kind of thing.

Audio I could get around, just route the sum output from my mixer into the MPC. But it would be great to use Audio out / in as send/return for effects loops, without having to unplug/replug all the time.

MIDI however... I have lots of synths which can send and receive MIDI controller data. Two MIDI ports are nice but insufficient. In a MIDI setup, only one device can send and receive controller data at the same time, all others are routed via "through" and thus can only receive. There are hacks you can use to get around this; MIDI mergers, splitters, etc; but all of this complicates cabling a lot. It would be REALLY good to be able to use a big multi-port interface for this.

I will look to get support at the official forum; thank you for the link!