# USB Midi Keyboard Hub - New Patch **URL:** \ **Category:** Patches\ **Created:** [August 31, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712 "2021-08-31T16:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![soxsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@soxsa](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/soxsa)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/1 "2021-08-31T16:26:50Z")
I have a feeling there must be a patch already, but as I couldn’t find it I wrote this. Very simple, plug a USB Midi keyboard into the Organelle, and standard MIDI out cable to your hardware synth. Set the output channel, octave up/down, transpose and play. I’ve sent the ‘pitch bend’ out as well. And there’s a handy feature for when the notes get stuck on - as they do in midi. Hold the Aux button and it sends ‘0’ velocity i.e. note off to every note. > **[USB MIDI Hub | Patchstorage](https://patchstorage.com/usb-midi-hub/)** > > Use a USB midi keyboard through the Organelle to play devices with only a standard... ---
**Author:** ![blywallentine](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/blywallentine/32/4840_2.png) [@blywallentine](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/blywallentine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/2 "2021-09-06T19:37:14Z")
This is a very cool tool! 😃 Great work! ---
**Author:** ![soxsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@soxsa](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/soxsa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/3 "2021-09-07T07:19:11Z")
Thanks Bly. The simplest patch in the world, but handy and I’m using it a lot at the minute. I might spice it up with a neat midi recorder that I wrote on PC at the minute - it’s a free-form (non quantised) but the trick is you can set an exact bpm and note length e.g. 16 quarter notes at 120 bpm - so you can record/loop in the moment to match a track exactly without having to send it midi clock and all that. Problem with the usual seq3 looper on Organelle is that it’s free-running without clock sync so you have to be super-exact with hitting the end of the loop, like with a looper pedal. ---
**Author:** ![Servandob](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/servandob/32/5328_2.png) [@Servandob](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/Servandob)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/4 "2021-09-13T16:16:38Z")
what have you used for your midi recorder / looper?. (coll/tables/text) Is it polyphonic? . Greetings. ---
**Author:** ![soxsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@soxsa](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/soxsa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/5 "2021-09-14T12:58:47Z")
Hi, greetings back. It uses a table, and currently monophonic. Although the if the receiving synth is polyphonic it would play overlapping notes. It’s quite simplistic, for instance it sends notes with a fixed length (variable by knob though) but I’ve found it useful musically for live playing. ---
**Author:** ![Servandob](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.critterandguitari.com/servandob/32/5328_2.png) [@Servandob](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/Servandob)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/6 "2021-09-14T13:16:17Z")
That’s How I’m doing it now in my patch (more or less…). [patches](http://servando.teks.no/?patches) I have done experiments with coll in order to have polyphony and also “unquantized recording” & to be able to store the sequences as text but I started experiencing crashes in the organelle so I abandoned that idea… ---
**Author:** ![soxsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@soxsa](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/u/soxsa)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/usb-midi-keyboard-hub-new-patch/7712/7 "2021-09-14T18:58:26Z")
That patch looks fab, much more sophisticated than my midi looper I will try it for sure! Thanks! The key thing for me is being able to dial in an exact loop length in X beats at an integer tempo Y, as I’m using it to accompany other tracks. Rather than add my simple looper to this patch, I may instead just add a midi clock out function. Then I can do the phrases and arpeggios at the synth end. That would use up my remaining 4th knob without having to go to a multi-page patch.