[LAU] Advice: solution to hookk up several USB-MIDI devices

[Clemens Ladisch]

David Kastrup wrote:
> If you want to hook up several ones of those via a USB hub, make sure
> that this hub has a separate "Transaction translator" per port so that
> a USB1.1 transaction from one Midi interface does not keep other
> transactions from happening: the 12Mbps limitation should only be per
> Midi interface, not per aggregating hub which can talk at 480Mbps to
> the computer.

MIDI's speed of 0.03 Mbps is less than one percent of the USB 1.1 limit;
the lack of a transaction translator does not matter at all (unless
other, high-speed USB devices are connected to the hub).


Regards,
Clemens