10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
6:59 p.m.
[...]
"Especially bad" is still pretty vague. What might look bad on paper might be
acceptable in context...
It's not unusable, but IIRC it can get to several ms of jitter.
I'm by no means an expert on this, but I think MIDI taking less bandwidth than
audio is not really relevant; it's audio data being isochronous and using a lot
of bandwidth causing the MIDI timing to suffer.
--ms
> > > 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.
[...]
Is the timing really that bad? I don't even think
a firewire 8x8
rackmount MIDI interface exists, so my options are kinda limited. :/
Timing is especially bad when there is other data being transferred on the same USB
bus, as is the case with combined audio/midi interfaces.
Perhaps, but midi takes a lot less bandwidth than audio so how much worse
could it get? It sounds like it wouldn't be a problem if you were
overdubbing, but potentially in a live recording/performance if you are using
the audio ins for a vocal mic or whatnot.