I just see it as good in the convenience factor and performance
factor. The bandwidth of USB is quite a bit higher than MIDI. That
means when you have a few of them running off a hub you won't get
nearly the delay that you would by chaining a few MIDI>CV converters
off a MIDI stream. You may match the same results with multiple
USB>MIDI>CV chains but this way one hub that can run 4 of these and
your set. There should be much less choking the stream at the 480MB
bandwidth of USB2 vs the 32K bandwidth of MIDI so there will be an
advantage over a plain MIDI>CV converter when multiple units are used.
There is just only the convenience factor of no MIDI converter when
only one is used. It will shine when you have more than one of them.
-James

On Jun 27, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Michael wrote:

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>
> I only looked quickly at that link. It would be awesome if they took
> advantage of USB and made it higher resolution... otherwise it seems
> kind of pointless.
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, zombie_tron< zombie_tron@... >
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > yeah, interesting, i guess they realize so many people have usb
> > keyboards/controllers lying around that it makes more sense to
> skip the
> > midi. .. and i was just about to buy a MCV..
> >
> > by the way - this is my first post - thanks for letting me join
> yer group.
> >
> > -brendan
> >
> > --- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Michael <michael@...> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > > > Kenton just released a USB to MIDI converter. Who will be the
> >> > > first to
> >> > > > make a Euro Rack version Doepfer
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > http://www.kentonuk.com/digital_interfaces_converters/midi_cv_converters_extras/usbsolo.html
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -James
> >> > > >
> >> > >
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