USB midi with Giga and windows XP

[Yves]

Hello!!
Is latency improved with Gigastudio 160
running on windows XP with an USB midi interface??
Any other Midi interface available without audio that is PCI or ISA ???
I need minimum 4 midi ports and would preferabely be rackmount..!
Thanks

Yves

[michael88s]

Hello Yves,

I\'ve read mixed opinions about the suitability of USB for audio and midi. If you\'re going for USB, it would be good to have a decent return policy on what you buy- and I\'d suggest that the hardware be forward compatible with the USB2.0 specification which is quite a bit faster.

Another way to go is a firewire PCI card and one of the Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) firewire interfaces.

Regards,
Michael