>> [...] the USB specification. And it even appears like some vendors >> are (finally!) starting to follow suit: >> >> http://midiman.com/products/en_us/KeystationPro88-main.html >> >> - "USB class compliant-no drivers required for >> Windows XP or Mac OS X" > > M-Audio started following suit only after they hung their engineers > with a USB cable and bought Evolution who had always made > class-compliant devices. The problem here is that class compliant devices suffer bad timing because they use bulk transfers for MIDI data. The standard for MIDI over FireWire is much better.
--ms
