RE: new HW/SW trend?

["Kevin Goldsmith" <kevin@unitcircle.com>]

>Cool! Too bad manufacturers aren't running to put ethernet ports in their
>devices yet, but USB could be a better way around this anyway, and the
>HEINOUS (ahem) bandwidth and buffer limits of the MIDI hardware spec.
>
USB definitely gets around some of the latency, and USB 2.0 can deal with 
the bandwidth, but both USB and Firewire are still working off more of the 
idea of a chain type mentality (I'm sure there are ways around it).  You 
also can't share devices between two computers as you could with Ethernet. 
 Plus, I'm not sure if devices on a firewire or USB chain can address each 
other directly or if they have to go through the controller (computer).

One last reason why ethernet is better: WIRELESS!

    Kevin


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