From djacques@csulb.edu Wed Oct 16 10:32:55 2002
Subject:RE: CX-3 v 2.0 upgrade requirements

Bruce and others.

How about the "Fastlane MIDI/USB" Interface is that a good one to use?

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From: Bruce Wahler [mailto:bruce@ashbysolutions.com]


USB won't be faster, per se -- MIDI always runs at 31.25Kbit/sec. -- but
it will be more reliable, and it well tend to get its work done while
allowing your PC to do other things. If you buy a 2x2 or higher
adapter, you can send on both (or more) streams at once with most
sequencer programs, effectively "speeding up MIDI" by doing two things
at once. Please take any information that music stores give you about
MIDI with a grain of salt. Most of the salespeople I've met understand
very little about MIDI and how it interacts with a PC, but that doesn't
stop many of them from acting like MIDI experts.

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