It's very easy to create fake positive reviews on Amazon, it's a rather chronic issue. A product with 100 positive reviews and 1 negative review is more trustworthy than a product with 5000 positive reviews and 40 negative reviews.

This one has worked out well for me despite being cheap... Well Amazon says that's the one I bought but the pictures don't match mine. So your mileage may vary.

Probably safer to go with a reputable instrument store's store brand though, they have more to lose in terms of reputation than a no-name Chinese vendor on Amazon.

I do MIDI through a MIDI to USB cable and bypass my interface. I use a mixer rather than a dedicated interface as you're looking at (it does live sound also, but has a USB out). MIDI to USB cable is the simplest way and you don't have to worry about wither the audio interface has MIDI.

This is the one I bought:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071KLC884/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There are others too, but that works as well as I could need it to and it's cheeeeeeaaaaaaap compared to an interface upgrade.

Here is a collection:

1. very cheap: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07L8KFYBK/ref=sr_1_6?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=usb+midi&qid=1636893961&sr=8-6
2. a little bit more fancy: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B071KLC884/ref=sr_1_9?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=usb+midi&qid=1636893961&sr=8-9
3. guranteed to work with everything: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B00967UN50/ref=sr_1_5?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=usb+midi&qid=1636893961&sr=8-5

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The Korg is the most expensive, but will have no problems with any device you want to attach and it also works with iPad/iPhone.

I looked up my order history, confirmed to work with volca fm patches:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071KLC884

On Amazon's US store listing for the same cable, there is a worrying percentage of 1-star reviews. Even the description there alludes to something along the lines of "the last time we tried to sell a cheap cable, everyone complained about incompatibilities, so here is a new revision that should fix some of the problems..."

Judging from the 1-star reviews, there might still be some problems remaining.

The first page of this forum topic has a few interesting links that dig into why some of this happens. To cut costs, these manufacturers are omitting several components from the circuit specified by the MIDI Manufacturer's Association. So, while they might work with some (tolerant) hardware sometimes, you can run into strange situations where plugging the exact same adapter into a different device (or even just a different port) will yield negative results instead.