Does anyone have a source for coloured MIDI cables? Thomann has them, and they aren’t too expensive, but shipping to North America is a bit much.
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Amazon must surely have them?
I loaded up on Cordial cables from Thomann just before brexit, but also bought a lot of budget coloured midi cables just to make cabling up easier as they don’t have to be anything special.
If its just to make them more identifiable amongst the rat-king of wires, i find that a short strip of electricians tape (one colour per lead) wrapped around each end of the wire can really help make sense of what is going where
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In the absence of colored midi cables, I’ve been using these to label my midi cables. One on each end of the cable, problem solved. There are enough colors that I haven’t had to double-up too much, and when I have the devices are usually far enough apart it isn’t a problem.
i was able to pick up a couple of red midi cables at Guitar Center once but yeah not sure why this isn’t a thing generally when it would help so much
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You would think Amazon has everything - so if someone can find some there and let me know that would be great. I must be searching by the wrong terms as I’ve yet to find them. 
Look for a brand called cable up. They make red, blue, white, black and yellow. Not super easy to find but thats the only one ive found.
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I seem to remember djtechtools having them.
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So close! They seem to have coloured audio and USB cables, but sadly no MIDI.
not cheap…
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There is a bizarre lack of pretty MIDI cables out there. I can get a rainbow of eurorack patch cables, I can get a woodland-meadow-in-spring of 1/4" audio, but in MIDI world you’re lucky if you can find a red and blue cable.
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RadioShack used to sell red, blue and yellow 3 packs. Back in the day I had all ins, outs and thrus color-coordinated.
Still have some going strong 20 years later;)
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I still have a set of those I think!
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I have blue, red, green and yellow cables. Maybe from Thomman? Just basic colours though and probably different colours for different lengths?
I think of all cables my MIDI cables have lasted the longest. I still have the first pair I bought in 1998, currently plugged into my DDD-1 lol
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Rockboard MIDI patch cables come in Yellow, Red, Green, Blue and black but they’re short.
Hosa made full length red and blue, but I don’t know about current availability, I found red.
https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-MID-305RD-MIDI-Cable-5-pin/dp/B000068NTX?th=1
I also see seismic red and blue but again, short.
I bet that there are more if you dig a bit.
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Anybody have any experience organizing group buys / connections to manufacturers in Asia?