[sdiy] USB/MIDI ground isolation?

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Colin f wrote:

> > While we're talking about hacks, what about
> > 
> > 	USB-MIDI -> USB2MIDI -> MIDI2USB -> USB-MIDI
> 
> That's quite a bottle-neck, just to avoid USB isolation issues.
> The minimum transfer rate over USB is about 300 times faster than MIDI.

So? Use an 8- or 16-times USB2MIDI/MIDI2USB interface if you have issues 
with more than one machine.

MIDI was good for 16 channels (and "appropriate" use of controllers 
and tempo) back then, it doesn't become unusable just because USB is 
faster (but, when it comes to that, being bulk-messages more jittery in 
timing).

Rainer