[LAU] MIDI over USB

[Will Godfrey]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 22:50:50 +0200
Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:

>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

Now why didn't I think of that?
Thanks Robin :)

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