On Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 2:52 PM Thomas Amm <deb...@open-email.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 08:11 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > > Thomas which USB chipsets do you prefer for audio? > > > And are you doing MIDI over USB to the synth? > > > > > > Viel Glueck .....Nick Geovanis > > > > > Mostly Realtek for now. I rember a faulty chipset in the early days of > USB3 causing lots of headaches but wasn't personally affected. No > actual USB-3 chipset has let me down so far, however. > I am actually doing MIDI over USB with all my synths but one, a 1989 > KORG Polysix with MIDI retrofit via DIN. This means I've got four > synths and three controllers communicating duplex over the same active > USB-3 hub without problems even when sequencing three of them and > recording + monitoring the master keyboard simultaneously. No miracle > comparing MIDI's very small bandwith and timing requirements with USB-3 > specs. > Thanks so much Thomas, that was a big question for me. Not so much USB-3 bandwidth but latency and timing. I have a Casio DMW, CSound under wintel (embarrassed silence ;-) and working on an Arduino-based sequencer. Arduino's have a base MIDI library and speak it directly.
