Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting USB MIDI master keyboards, do they work with Linux ?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interesting USB MIDI master keyboards, do they work with Linux ?
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 19:54:06 EET


Hi,
I meant of sending midi events from the master keyboard via USB to the PC
 which runs an internal soft-synth/sampler.
In that case USB should improve timing because of the bigger bandwidth,
(but will add 1msec of latency due to USB1 polling mechanism as far as I can
 understand).
Correct me if I'm wrong.

cheers,
Benno

You wrote:
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> Ok if the Edirol keyboards support standard MIDI then there shouldn't be any
> problems using them under Linux, but since USB has a much bigger bandwidth
> than serial MIDI, I that the timing for notes that belong to large chords is
> more precise. Can someone confirm this ?

Not really, unless you are spreading those chords on several separate midi
outputs. If it just one, then it determines the bandwidth available.
Getting things faster to the interface will do nothing because it still
has to send the bytes to the external synth at the same old slow 31250
baud speed.
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