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All,

>Hi Jon ,
>When I replaced de MIDIMAN USB Midisport2x2  for a Emagic AMT8 al
>the problems were gone, and at this moment I use it with a Mac G4 MP OS 9.04,
>SoundDiver and a lot of stuff,no single problem.
>-Joop-

A shame about the MIDIsport on the Mac.  On the PC side of things, the 
MIDIMan gear is very stable; in fact I've found my MIDIsport 8x8 USB to be 
more stable than the (parallel port) MIDI Quest Note1 that I used for 
several years, and at least as stable as the joystick interface on most 
sound cards.

USB was supposed to be the great MAC-PC unifier, but it just doesn't seem 
to be happening.  Almost all the MIDI manufacturers seem to have great 
expertise in one side, much less in the other.  When I was shopping for a 
USB 8x8, the candidates boiled down to MIDIMan and MOTU, since Opcode's 
site clearly states that they don't support Win98SE or Win2K (!).

I checked the website, and the MOTU Windows USB drivers were listed as 
"coming soon".  I called MOTU support, and didn't get a good feeling about 
the situation, so I held off a bit.  After a second call, went with 
MIDIMan.  Good thing, too:  The WDM drivers were finally released on 
8/14/2001 -- a little more than a year after I bought my MIDIsport, and 
almost 16 months after I called MOTU!

So much for the "universal interface" ...

Regards,

-BW

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