G4 533 Serial midi or USB Midi?

[Bill Rigby]

About $350.00 Australian, all serial midi interfaces, but to achieve the ultimate in midi tightness, attatch a dumb single serial to midi interface using freemidi. If you have been using a multi port device and the familiarity of OMS (Studio 5 etc) you will achieve a slightly better performance than a standard mac serial port.

[Bill Rigby]

About $350.00 Australian, all serial midi interfaces, but to achieve the ultimate in midi tightness, attatch a dumb single serial to midi interface using freemidi. If you have been using a multi port device and the familiarity of OMS (Studio 5 etc) you will achieve a slightly better performance than a standard mac serial port.

[J Fernandez]

Where can i buy it in the states?Is my emagic amt-8 compatible?its usb and serial

[J Fernandez]

Bill
Are there any tests that you have conducted that you can share with us?
I did some midi recording yesterday with the AMT-8 via USB What a F***** mess
the latency is horrible,i had to edit and place everything manually to the grid. What is the pupose of recording midi if i have to do this!!! I hope Digi rectifys this in future upgrades!!Digi needs to abandon OMS and write there own code BADLY!!!!
Digi i hope your listening!!

[Graham Hinton]

I am not surprised that you have awful results with an AMT8 and USB. USB is unsuitable for serious MIDI use. Period. The so called "advanced MIDI timing" is a trick that preloads MIDI data into the interface and then times it out from there to get over the delays in USB. This only works in playback where the data is already known and within Logic. It does not work in record and with other manufacturers software.

We've already got too much BADLY written software, what we want is a WELL written MIDI system.

[J Fernandez]

Digi
You should hire Graham Hinton For the next revision of PT 5.2 and let him fix this midi mess!!!!!

[sandman]

how good is the timing factor on the 001 ports btw ?
its connected though the pci card so it needed to get realy good resolts
i dont feel that
well may be better then the motu fastlane usb card i use : ((. . .

cheers

[EricLee]

does anyone know about the new spec on USB 2.0(I think it's 2.0) it's a new improved version of USB that is supposed to have the capacity to run digital audio in addition to everything else it's expected to do( the audio has to be a joke) but maybe it's will run midi more reliably. I know it's expected to be out as we speak.
Eric

[J Fernandez]

Yup! Its gonna be a while before we see that (MLAN) but it looks very promising.I think digi will not upgade to 96K (no new hardware this year) and will be going firewire.This is the future!!!

[This message has been edited by J Fernandez (edited March 20, 2001).]

[Dr Fever]

MLan....Firewire.....MIDI info running side by side, not nut to butt.....Audio and MIDI in and out thru 1 firewire cable....Ahhhhhh!!!! I know it's around the corner but I'm curious as hell!!! Connectivity as we know it is about to change( at least that's what all the hype says!!!)