RE: new HW/SW trend?

["Michael LaMeyer" <m.lameyer@verizon.net>]

Cool! Too bad manufacturers aren't running to put ethernet ports in their
devices yet, but USB could be a better way around this anyway, and the
HEINOUS (ahem) bandwidth and buffer limits of the MIDI hardware spec.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Voit [mailto:c.voit@vtx.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:33 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: new HW/SW trend?


check that out it woorks
Midi over lan

http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm

Claude





> > I've been wondering if manufacturers would move more towards "real"
> networking, ie: Ethernet.  With Gigabit ethernet hardware chips coming
down
> in price, giving bandwidth to spare, I'm wondering why manufacturers
haven't
> moved in that direction.
> >
>
> Me too. ethernet seems so obvious - its been around for a long time
and its
> not going anywhere anytime soon, and bandwidth is not a problem at
all.  I
> wonder, is there a problem with variable (unpredictable) latency of
ethernet
> used for with audio stuff?
> Jon
>
>