FFS!  This isn't exactly a new piece of kit.  I can't believe no one else has ever reported this problem.  Maybe I'm unique?

Ah well, I'll just have to abuse them on Twitter daily until it's fixed

Problem solved!

Bit dusty, but otherwise in good nick!  Can't wait to get the wee beastie in my rig!

i just set my recieve channels carefully on all my gear and its no problem
do you have some gear that is basically stuck in omni mode?

Yes, this exactly >_<

I just figured if I'm thinking of a patchbay anyway, then I may as get one with MIDI filtering/channeling which can fix this problem for me at the same time

Yeah, I think we're saying the same thing

I've had a look at the Midisport 8x8 docs and unless I'm reading it wrong, it just seems to patch input-x to output-y.  Whereas I'd ideally like to filter one input out to several outputs based on the incoming channel. 

One reason for this is that my DD55 listens on all channels, not just channel 10.....which means I can't use a MIDI thru without lots of lovely GM noises coming out of it.  >_<

whoa so you need more than one device per 8x8 channel? If not, you can just have output one send midi channel 10 to all 8 inputs, and just have the device on output 2 set to respond to ch 10..the other non ch 10 devices should jsut ignore that...

yeah, i have a pretty intense midi setup, but i just set my recieve channels carefully on all my gear and its no problem
do you have some gear that is basically stuck in omni mode?

So for example,

I have an input on Input 1, I want to redirect that to Output 1, but also just channel 10 to Output 2.  I can see that the MTP AV can do this, just wondering if there's any cheaper options as the cheapest one I can find is £250 off ebay

Thanks for that!

I got one used for $75, but I had to wait a bit to find one that cheap.  I think the average price for one is about $125 or so.  Everything has to be programmed via USB but after that, you can rock it PC-free, baby!

Also, there's a cable-test function or something that simply merges all the ins and sends that merged signal to all the outs.  So if you have everything isolated by channel, this will work for you out of the box.

I'm still stubbornly refusing to allow a PC into my live rig.  Now, PC based MIDI patching is pretty easy, but I want to be able to do this in hardware ideally.  I have a feeling if I start plugging-unplugging MIDI patchcables between songs it's going to get a bit boring, and there is bound to be an occasion where I forget how a certain song is patched.

Ideally I'd love a rack which I can just save a load of presets too, one for each song for example.

I'm aware of the MOTU MTP AV, which seems to do all I want, but they're damn expensive even second hand.  The only other one I've seen is the MID Patchbay from MIDITool, but that doesn't support MIDI Merge (which I assume means I can't have one port as a MIDI Thru)

SO!  What other solutions are there?  Searching ebay for "MIDI Patchbay" comes back with zero results >_<