From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Wed Oct 16 10:55:09 2002
Subject:RE: CX-3 v 2.0 upgrade requirements

Hi David,

I can't comment on the Fastlane device. I've only owned a few PC-to-MIDI interfaces in my life, and for unrelated reasons, most of them have been Midiman. I now have two of the Midiman 2x2 units. (The other company I've owned is Opcode, but they're out of business.) I'm actually not a huge fan of Midiman interfaces, as they have a hardware incompatibility with some of the line-powered MIDI Solutions devices that I sell on my site. However, they are cheap -- but not TOO cheap -- and they have worked well for me during the CX-3 upgrades. I can't guarantee you will have the same results; just take it as one user's experiences. Your mileage, as they say, may vary.

Regards,

-BW

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At 10:32 AM 10/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Bruce and others.
>
>How about the "Fastlane MIDI/USB" Interface is that a good one to use?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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.