On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 23:00, John Check wrote: > > MIDI streams need a reliable transport with guaranteed bandwidth. If > > USB can't provide this, then it is not really suitable for MIDI, but I'm > > not saying it is unusable, just that it may perform worse then traditional > > serial multiport MIDI interfaces. > > > > FWIW the M-Audio keyboard I bought has a regular MIDI interface too. I'd > imagine one with audio inputs has it as well. >
M-Audio's USB MIDI keyboards are great, but I would not expect the audio variant to work as well. I also would not expect the audio hardware to be any better quality than what is in your average laptop. I haven't tried it though. Lee
