Hi all,
I hope that someone could give me some advice. I’m fast realising that I could really use a basic midi interface on one of my PCs for testing and such… I would need it to have a multi-client driver for winXP, and nothing too special, the cheaper the better. I only need one or two ports, I’d imagine that anything more would be costly.
If anyone knows of such a thing, I’d love to hear about it!
Thanks!
Have you tried the MIDIMan USB MIDI interface?
Plug and play with WinXP, and provides 2xIN and 2xOUT with Activity LED’s. Pretty damn cheap too.
Thanks Jaicen…
From what I gather, they use the standard windows USB MIDI driver which isn’t multi-client capable 
I could be wrong about that though?
Stryd,
I’ve got one around here, but it’s sort of a backup. I’ve never had to use it in more than one app, and it’s usually on a 2k machine. I wasn’t 100% thrilled with their drivers when I used it more, but it was OK.
I think Thorsten actually knows that interface and may have one (he didn’t care for the latency IIRC).
Take Care,
George
PS- I may be in the same boat for a 98 machine. Just got a nice 600MHz laptop (nice for me) for doing portable MIDIBox/PIC stuff, and it has no MIDI interface. Sad part is, I think the audio chip (ESS Maestro 3i or something) has the usual 1x1 MIDI built in, but it isn’t accessible. Wish I could tap directly to the chip, but I fear it would also involve some sort of activation to cut it on.