midi on the USB port

[mihmar]

Hi,

I\'ve dedicated a PC machine to Gigastudio. My other PC is running Cubase.
Now the problem is how to link the two PCs MIDI-wise?
Of course one solution is to buy two 4x4 MIDI interfaces but...is it any other possibility, like emulating a MIDI interface on the USB bus? I think that I read something about this (some Yamaha drivers?), but know when I need it I cannot find any information about this.
Can anyone advice, please?
thanks...

mihmar

[Munsie]

Don\'t get too overly technically concerned about this, on the gigastudio computer I would use a sound card with midi ports built in like the ardvark cards. Gigastudio is recommended not to be used with USB midi ports. On the other computer however I think a standard USB midi setup would be fine. I\'m using a midiman 2x2 card on my sequencer computer and just dedicate one of the ins and outs for the Gigastudio machine. Works like a champ!

[Doc]

check out the past threads on networking or using network cards to link two computers. This topic has been discussed and explained before.

[mahlon]

I am upgrading my system and was wondering about the use of USB midi interface.

Question:
So using USB midi interface on the PC running the sequencer works ok? Just not to use it with the computer which Gigastudio runs on? Is this right?
Thanks
Mahlon