Need to find a MIDI-controllable Windows USB audio interface

Bome Products
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Hi - newbie here.
Looking to find a suitable USB audio interface that I can mute / level adjust with Midi via Bome Midi Translator (using Midi rather than API calls / UI prodding). I’ve already got a Focusrite 2i2 4th Gen but that’s no go by the look of it (can re-use elsewhere).
FR 4i4 3rd gen and earlier look like they’d work, but I don’t want to start off an already-superseded piece of kit - I probably need to get a few of these for various colleagues, so need something that’s still being manufactured.
Anyone any thoughts?
Matt

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Hi and welcome to the Bome community!

Indeed, this would be nice but when I’ve looked I have never found one that can be MIDI controlled. I’ve found some expensive digital mixers that can, however. Many Allen&Heath mixers can be controlled by MIDI.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Although my audio interface is not MIDI controllable, I also have Voicemeeter Potato which is. I just set and forget the settings on my audio interface and USB to control Voicemeeter. It like a digital mixer for Windows PC.

I use the Behringer Uphoria UMC404HD.

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Ah - good thinking; have used Voicemeeter elements elsewhere. Any noticeable latency through it?

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Any time you convert audio to digital and back again there will be some latency. However with ASIO, it is generally not noticable if you have your settings set correctly. I’m running an ASIO audio driver on my interface which Behringer created for it.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Good to know. For sidetone back to the voice artist I’ll use the direct loopback from the Scarlett, but the whole chain will pass on thru Comrex Gagl to a live broadcast contribution. Low numbers of milliseconds aren’t vital, but if the whole stack mounts up to more than a few hundred then it won’t match the pictures; it’s for commentary rather than in-vision, so at least I don’t need to worry about li-syncing!