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MIDI is - and should be with future standards - simple, slow and reliable: Musical Instruments don't need much/many volume/types of information, so writing the drivers should be fairly simple.

Having said that, some midi to usb converters are still not up to full compliance with the 80s MIDI 1 standard



Does that mean that the converters implement the protocol themselves? I expected them to be roughly FTDI USB UART chips, tied to the MIDI baudrate.


I'm not entirely sure, but the fact that there are compatibility/compliance issues leads me to believe it's a mixture of both.

Either way, the drivers may be the issue: Parsing the serial correctly etc.




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