[linux-audio-dev] Interesting USB MIDI master keyboards, do they work with Linux ?

[Tim Goetze]

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

>through usb big chords will have much better timing. The 1msec added
>latency should not make any difference at all when compared to normal
>midi. One midi note (no running status) takes about 1msec to be
>transmitted at 31250 baud. 

there's a difference though: the usb 1 ms is jitter, there's no way
to reconstruct the original timing. this in contrast to midi, where 
you can extrapolate the exact event time quite well (provided you're
looking at a stream of mostly isolated events). oh well, most people
think 1 ms is below human perception limits anyway.

tim