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[oldgearguy]

If I may pose one more question (post-purchase)...

Trying to understand where to place the NDLR in my MIDI chain.  Presently, I had planned on the following:

MIDI keyboard -> Squarp Pyramid -> Kenton MIDI Thru -> (1) Pioneer Toraiz AS-1, (2) Audiothingies Micromonsta, (3) Nord Drum 3P

Where would you recommend placing the NDLR, etc.?

I would put it parallel to the MIDI keyboard, feeding into the Pyramid.  If you're not interested in purchasing a MIDI patchbay, you could run it like this:

keyboard -> NDLR -> Pyramid.  The NDLR will pass notes through so you can play/record from the keyboard into the Pyramid and still use the NDLR to generate cool stuff and send it to the Pyramid as well.

As your system grows (and it will), you'll be tempted to buy more MIDI Thru and MIDI Merge boxes to continue patching the system.

My advice is to avoid that and buy a decent 8x8 or similar MIDI patchbay that lets you route/merge/split data more easily.