# Disable Midi In Device **URL:** \ **Category:** Support, Help & Resources\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/disable-midi-in-device/5127 "2021-02-11T00:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![MusikMan74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MusikMan74](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/MusikMan74)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/disable-midi-in-device/5127/6 "2021-02-12T03:56:43Z")
Again, thank you soxsa for your detailed response. I am familiar with Oscii-bot (I have used it for Midi-to-Midi translations in the past…) > [@soxsa](#): > > I’ve moved to put SPi on another computer and running over midi cables. That has pros and cons, but at least it should always work. I would like the option to run multiple things on one computer though. I was wondering if you could use a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox) as a 2nd PC running SPi and transmit midi (between the guest and host PC) via rtpMidi: [http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html](http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html) Of course, I have no idea what the performance would be… Finally, it’s strange that the SPi developers weren’t thinking about SPi as simply a _midi generator_… with 1. no Midi In connections and 2. no connection to an Audio Device: I currently need to specify a ‘dummy’ (i.e. unused VoiceMeter input) as the SPi output audio device (à la [[SOLVED] Select ASIO Driver? - #2 by bcgreen24](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/solved-select-asio-driver/847/2?)) such that SPi does not hog up my default sound device when running so my VST host can use ASIO4All… --- _[View the full topic](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/disable-midi-in-device/5127)._