Cable Matters 2-Pack 5 Pin DIN MIDI Cable, 5 Pin MIDI Cable - 1.8m

I bought these to supplement some 30-year-old MIDI cables that I'd used week in, week out for most of that time. The old leads were grey (which seemed to be the only colour available back in the day) and the 5-pin DIN plugs had been accidentally trodden on a number of times whilst setting up & packing away my rig - hence the shell had got bent out of shape and sometimes needed pliers to straighten it.These are really nice. Black, so they match the rest of my leads (audio and power leads), lovely non-squashed DIN plug terminations and they have worked fine so far. I have connected a MIDI controller to a rack-mount tone module, an electric piano to the same module and the MIDI controller to the 5-pin input of a Focusrite Clarett+ interface for a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). All worked well, with no dropped connections and no glitches.OK, so MIDI is heading more and more towards USB connection, particularly for computer-based music making, but if you've still got old-school hardware that needs the 5-pin DIN connection, these are just the job.

Great value and excellent quality. Everything you want a midi cable to be.

I bought a couple of these, the cords are on the thin end of the spectrum but I've had no issues after a month of use. Plugs fit well, shielding hasn't come away, midi information gets transferred from one end to the other end reliably. The thin cables don't have that solid, chunky feel, so I wouldn't use them to safely suspend a bowling ball over my antique porciline figurines of 17th century Dutch aristocracy.

Good for purpose

Great product - using older tech is still important in a synth studio , so it’s great that there is a manufacturer producing high quality cablesWell done guys , keep up the good work

Midi is fun

They worked as MIDI cables which is all I wanted.

Cheers