[sdiy] PIC / Atmel Programmers (usb)

[Bert Schiettecatte]

That all sounds very nice, but if you make your device a standard MIDI USB
device,
you don't have to write any drivers at all. They come with the OS... Macs
don't
have a COM port for example, what will happen once Apple decides it's time
to
remove serial ports from their OS?

If there was a way to make the FTDI chip show up as a standard midi device
(i.e.
be able to make it store the right descriptor tables for a MIDI USB device)
then
this would definately be it. I think FTDI should make a special MIDI-to-USB
bridge
such that we can all send our MIDI to this bridge and not have to write any
drivers
or use COM ports :-)



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Leif
Sent: donderdag 29 mei 2003 3:25
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: RE: [sdiy] PIC / Atmel Programmers (usb)


But still... you get free drivers for windows, linux, mac, bsd and windows
cd drivers for it for free... so if you want a product for more than 1
platform, I still think it's the best chip. especially if you think as
me... use time on the hardware, and/or the software... and save a lot of
time in not having to invent the wheel again...

cheers,
leif
At 02:52 29.05.2003 +0200, Bert Schiettecatte wrote:
>I don't like the FTDI chips. They appear as a virtual COM port or you have
>to
>use some weird DLL library they supply... so the device is still not usable
>unless
>you write your own driver or you write software the uses the library. So in
>the
>end, only your software would be able to use the device...