The Digiface USB does not support MIDI and it has only a TRS plug to connect phones (asymmetric).
With the analog output for phones you could theoretically drive active near field monitors, but then you can't connect them symmetric .. and this is the "de-facto" standard to avoid electrical interferences / noise from outside.
You could workaround the missing MIDI ports by buying an USB based MIDI adapter. But then you require one USB port more on your Apple and you might have the challenge to get a good and reliably working one. IMHO it would be better, to have MIDI directly built-in into the RME recording device, then MIDI communication participates from the quality of the RME driver.
Much easier and straight forward would be IMHO, that you give the Digiface USB back and buy a RME recording interface, that has all the analog and digital I/O which you require.
How long is the purchase back ? Any chance to give it back or replace it from dealer with another RME interface ?
To be able to give you a good advice, which RME recording interface to take, it would be good if you could answer the following questions:
- For what purposes do you require this interface ?
- What devices / instruments do you need to connect to it analog / digital ?
- What is your max. budget ?
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