<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Let’s pass usb midi through <span style="caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.84px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 124%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TOSLINK</span> and call it a day.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Tremblay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 9, 2024, at 11:05 AM, Mike Bryant <mbryant@futurehorizons.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Nothing is stopping equipment having USB ground isolation - it's just never specified.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 09 March 2024 15:14<br>
<b>To:</b> synth-diy@synth-diy.org <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] MIDI Clock sync advice</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 3/9/2024 7:00 AM, Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy wrote:<br>
> USB is just not ideal for music devices because of the star networking pattern. If we could evolve to a point where every usb cable is usb C and all connections are peer-to-peer, we could finally sunset five pin midi.<br>
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Except that 5 pin MIDI has the most excellent ground isolation. We don't <br>
get that with USB MIDI.<br>
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