[LAU] USB-MIDI Controller Issues

[Gwenhwyfaer]

On 24/03/2011, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
> Daniel Worth wrote:
>> I ordered a super cheap USB midi cable
>> <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017H4EBG>

> According to the reviews on the Amazon page, this cable (or at least one
> of the models that are sold over this page) has buggy firmware, and from
> what I can deduce from the hex dumps, it's so broken that it is not
> possible to work around this in the driver.

Yep; I bought a super-cheap MIDI cable on ebay that had much the same
problems, and if I remember correctly was of the same design. It's
worth paying the extra for a name brand that's been properly debugged;
whilst I'm sure a lot of these get sold, I'm equally sure they just
end up in landfills polluting our ecosystems.