Gig Performer’s MIDI In Block is not just your everyday block for receiving MIDI events. It can do much more than just receive MIDI messages from an external device and feed them to connected soft-synth plugins.
It has important other functionality that often relieves you from having to use multiple separate MIDI processing plugins.
Check out this in-depth blog article to learn many great features of this block: https://gigperformer.com/the-hidden-power-of-the-midi-in-block/