I called MOTU tech support and they said that the MIDI i/o requires MIDI router software, e.g a DAW. This seems ludicrous to me, since you can use the audio features of the Ultralite perfectly fine without a DAW, just using CueMix. To make matters worse, the included DAW, AudioDesk, does not support MIDI.
GREAT! Now I need to purchase and run DAW software even though I don't need it for my rig? Is this really true? Is there something else I can use that is more lightweight? I am already running tons of stuff on my machine and the requirement of adding a DAW just to get MIDI connectivity between my MIDI keyboard and my sound module is really blowing my mind (not to mention my budget). And the idea of buying a separate MIDI Interface is aggravating, too, because those 2 MIDI ports on the MOTU are just staring at me (and informed my purchase decision).
It seems to me there should just be a setting to connect external MIDI in to external MIDI out. I'm continuing to scour the manual but nothing. Is this a "feature" of all MOTU hardware?
So far I've been thinking this thing is the bomb, but now I'm disappointed. One more thing that ALMOST works and will probably require $ and hours of my time to resolve. I know this will get fun at some point, right?
