[linux-audio-dev] a question re: the MIDI spec

[Martijn Sipkema]

>> [...] 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