Darcy James Argue / 2005/07/07 / 07:14 PM wrote: >I agree, USB 1.1 is inadequate for MIDI + everything else, but that's >why the pros get a FireWire or USB 2 MIDI interface.
Boy, takes long time to go through all the list traffic :-) Just for the record, USB 1.1 was fine in my MIDI setup. My MTP/AV USB offers time stamping to compensate latency. I even had scanner and all the stuff to powered USB hub while getting orchestra sequencing job done with two K2600Rs and a QSR. It was when my main studio machine was still Dual-450. My PB has FastLane (much less Time Stamp resolution), which also never gave me any MIDI problem. However, CoreMIDI driver was not that rock solid until Panther. It was almost there by Jaguar but Panther nailed it. If you still get latency even using MIDI Time Stamping, that means your MIDI module is causing it, but not the host. Getting 3rd party serial interface isn't worth it. All the vendors will sure create modem driver, but not all will create MIDI driver. Keyspan abandoned MIDI driver, leaving their serial adapter customers who were using for MIDI left in cold. Other PCI vendors such as GeeThree seems to committed to MIDI driver, but they always suffer when OS upgrade since every time CoreMIDI Framework changes. For the original poster (don't even remember who that was), I too had experienced such terrible Speed Entry latency but that was a few FinMac versions ago, and I had to wait till the next upgrade (or was it a patch?). It has not happened since then. To me, it was nothing to do with the interface, but inefficient Finale thread priority was fighting with something else. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
