[LAU] MIDI over USB

[Robin Gareus]

On 06/01/2018 09:00 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> Something just occurred to me.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is transmitted any faster if going computer to computer
> rather than between hardware devices. So do you get lower latency?

You have more bandwidth but not usually lower latency.

> Also what about keyboards that work entirely as MIDI over USB connecting to a
> computer?

Depends on the keyboard.

It seems that may chipsets still use the 31.25kbaud (probably because
you can get USB to physical MIDI ASIC cheap off the shelf).

You can check with jack_midi_dump (or similar). Elbow press/release
30-40 notes on a keyboard and check if most individual note events are
spaced less than 1ms apart. If they are, then the interface is faster
than physical MIDI.

ciao,
robin