following on from comments somewhere above, the kenton midi host thing sure would be handy to have, but if, like me, that seems a bit too spendy for you, there’s always the raspberry pi, i have it working fine with various class compliant gear including korg nanopad (i wrote a simple root levelscript to deduce what two devices (input & output) were connected at boot and to simply link them, no xwindows or pd patching required) it’s handy for portable setups and cheap, it’ll do other stuff as well