> And don't accidentally knock the firewire cable out :)  I had one for a
> week.  The connector was horrible on the unit itself and if any other
> wires were laying across it, sometimes it would pull out, talk about loud
> popping in the speakers!!!

Always make sure you use fully protected speakers with your DAW :)
I have genelec 1029s and they are indestructable.

> My MIDI controller has a mac serial port on it.  I am curious though, why
> not just use USB MIDI controller.  That is how I have mine setup and it
> works great, never had a single problem, and I am running 3 synth modules
> and 2 keyboards off of it, all on.  I have heard lots of complaints about
> USB not being able to support the throughput, but 12 Mbit seems to be fine
> for me, any thoughts?

The standard MIDI over USB protocol apparently sucks. The FireWire MIDI
adaption layer does not.

--martijn

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