On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, david wrote:
On 01/28/2017 01:11 PM, Len Ovens wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, david wrote:
That's interesting. I wonder of their
"Advanced" term is just a
synonym for "Proprietary"?
The manual does not claim this is Roland technology or that it is
licenced from someone else. Looking up FPT USB MIDI on the web does only
return Roland/Cakewalk pages for as long as I looked.
Sounds a bit proprietary to me. Even if a technology isn't patented or
otherwise legally restricted - if no one else uses it, it's effectively
proprietary.
I agree, in general if I driver is needed for both Windows and MacOS, I
concider it proprietary.
Haven't most modern/current MIDI devices switched
to USB? If so, do the
old MIDI hardware transmission speed limits still apply?
It depends... Some just take the base midi and add a USB chip in which
case there is no speed improvement. Beyond that, I don't know. Even USB1.1
is certainly able to go faster.
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Len Ovens
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