engrssc wrote:#3 with a powered USB hub which will provide a single USB to computer connection,
If you have enough USB ports on the computer, #4. If you use #4, once you establish the USB connections, do not change them (move them around to different ports) Hauptwerk will look for each specific component on a specific USB port.
Rgds,
Ed
My experience with hubs has steered me away from hubs in general. I find it much better to connect directly to the USB ports and for those devices with 5-pin MIDI connections, use the Roland UM-one DIN-USB MIDI cable.
This allows the computer to have a full speed port on each keyboard and not just 1 of 16 channels on an already slow MIDI stream.
I never daisy chain keyboards, never.
USB connections should also be powered on at all times. There is a setting in the PC power management for doing that. Do not let the computer have control of whether the USB port is powered on or not. Lock it on.
Arrange the MIDI USB connectors with the PC keyboard (wired or wireless receiver), mouse and/or touchscreens in the first USB ports looked at by the PC (you can find out which is which under Device manager), then add the pedal board USB, keyboard 1 USB, Keyboard 2 .....Keyboard n USB. Do not leave a gap in the USB port usage. Any USB port which might change from occupied to unoccupied or have a memory stick plugged and unplugged should be above the keyboards. All this is to keep Windows from re-arranging the keyboards whenever a USB port changes. Once it is set do not rearrange the USB connectors when you have to unplug everything for some reason. Map where they go, mark them and put them back.
And that's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Thomas