Hi @SteveC I appreciate your amazing support and many thanks to writing the program for my mad scientist creation, I still cannot get the program to work. I followed the instructions to create the aliases, renamed them Octopad and Microkorg2, changed all the ports to specific ports and used the newly named aliases for midi in and out. The end result with the translator is the same as if I plug the octopad midi directly into the microkorg2, I hear one note (whatever true note value is assigned to each pad from the octopad) for one second and then it stops. I can see the event happen on the log window for both midi and incoming/outgoing messages. The clock (F8) is spinning all the time. I had pocket midi to monitor the traffic, also tried not using it, both had the same result. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. If this borders consultation, I am still interested because I would like to see if my musical idea can be relevant