On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 07:49, Martijn Sipkema wrote: > >> [...] 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.
Hmm.. I'm just about to drop $400 on a USB MIDI interface (Edirol UM-880), so that's not something I want to hear! Is the timing really that bad? I don't even think a firewire 8x8 rackmount MIDI interface exists, so my options are kinda limited. :/ -DR-
