I belive the GVP IO extender board was even set up with Midi in mind. True you can add more serial ports by getting serial port Zorro cards. I don't know of any Zorro card or parallel port MIDI port interfaces for the Amiga. RS232 is pretty limited and not much different from the Amiga to ST or PC. My Unitor N has 2 additional fast ports and there was another dongle that attached to the St's serial port that gave it even more Midi ports but the Notator manual warns against using them for devices for which the timing is important. It works fine for just one Midi port but it is not fast enough for multi port applications. The Amiga Midi interfaces use the RS-232 serial port which is pretty limited. These were all developed over a period of years for an active community of users just like the Video Toaster and Flyer were for the Amiga. There was Cubase for the ST as well and a number of other sequencers as well as a plethora of synth editors, patch librarians and other Midi utilities.
For timing, it is better than anything for the PC, Mac and Amiga. Nothing even came close for the Amiga for Midi sequencing.
I have a Mega 4 ST with a Unitor N dongle running Notator.
It isn't just the hardware, it is the amount of software available for it. Midi is the one area that the ST does beat the Amiga in.
