Patrick Shirkey wrote: > paul wisehart wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:49:36AM +0000, Neil Durant wrote: > > > >>I would like to buy either a soundcard or dedicated MIDI interface for MIDI > >>applications on a PC, and was wondering if people had any recommendations? > >> > >> 1) Either PCI or USB An old PCI sound card plus a gameport/MIDI cable might be cheaper than a USB MIDI interface, but the latter is more flexible, and a must if you want more than 1/1 ports. For supported PCI cards, see the soundcard matrix (please note that MIDI on ES1938 chips is not supported). All USB MIDI interfaces from Edirol, ESI, Midiman, and Yamaha are supported. > >> 4) Ideally 2 out ports, but 1 would be ok > >> 5) 1 in port is fine The ESI RomI/O has 2 out / 1 in. > > [...] you don't have to do any firmware/bios loading as (i think) > > you have to do with the midisport usb interfaces. > > I think it is done by default when the driver is loaded now. For the > quattro at least. The Quattro already has a working firmware. The MidiSport firmware loader still has to be installed separately. HTH Clemens
