I was confused at first after plugging it in and trying to use it with a few different synths, it just wasn't working right. Then I saw there was a driver on the website (i use windows 7 64bit) and after installing that, smooth sailing. The drivers show up in all my different sequencing software as expected. Since I have read that you can have more than one of these units running at the same time, I plan to buy another since I have more gear to run, and I haven't found a cheaper and better way to get this much dependable midi i/o. A win for ESI. (although I have not tried this with Windows 8 or OSX, and sometimes drivers can be problematic. Thomann has an awesome return policy though so give it a try.) Took one star off handling because the numbering of the midi jacks is a little confusing to me.