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On 9 jun 2006, at 13.55, Stephen Goodman wrote: > Of course the one thing I left out of my Great New Machine was a > USB-MIDI Interface, having assumed that there'd be the good old > joystick-MIDI socket on the new motherboard (which has 24-bit > SBLive 7.1 onboard), but no! > > I did a search for "USB MIDI" on LD's digest but it brought forth > too many posts to check for verity. So here I am! I use this: http://www.audiotrak.net/xpmidi.htm It is dirt cheap and extremely portable. I'm on my second MIDI Mate now because a musician friend became so impressed with the little thing that I couldn't resist giving it to him ;-) I use them with both Windows XP and OSX pc's to connect external midi gear. No drivers needed, pop it in and use it. > Comments about lag time/latency in USB MIDI interfaces are as usual > welcome, if not also schematics in the absence of other-than-Avid > products.. Thanks in advance! You can neglect latency in MIDI, it almost doesn't exist. Maybe this is what you've heard: Timing data can be screwed up if you play a MIDI instrument from a MIDI keyboard when you do very big chords with exactly the same timing of all notes (not a "guitar/harp-like" chord strum). This has nothing with computers to do but happens because MIDI is a serial protocol and as such it can only send all those MIDI note-on events in a row. So the first note to arrive to the sampler/synth will play back first, no matter you actually hit all keys simultaneously on the keyboard. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)