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Help connecting USB Audiophile w/ Live 4 in OS9

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vintagefreak:

--- Quote from: IIO on July 10, 2024, 10:16:09 PM ---the scheduler in early ableton versions was terrible. that is problem number 1.

then there is the way you connect periphery, which is another topic. the atari is unbeaten here*), followed by serial interfaces. USB are the worst. yet USB at least has a bandwith high enough to use multiple controllers, which was close to impossible before.

topic 3 is the resolution of midi software. here the atari was worse than our "modern" MacOS9 programs, which to my knowledge all support up to 1920 ppq (which is far higher than the ~0.7ms per 3-byte block a physical DIN MIDI connection offers at best - and also fast enough to fit into the current audiovector size of the VST interface (32 samples - at 44 khz that is roughly about what DIN midi can do), so that you play virtual instruments literally latency free.)

on an up-to-date system you can have all of that at once: you can mostly switch to software synths because computers got faster, the clock resolution nowadays ranges between 0.1 ms and one sample at current samplerate, midi and similar data within software can be sent parallel (hundreds of bytes at the same logical time), and when you really need physical outputs, there is copperlan & co (based on 10gbit ethernet.) which outperforms serial in timing accuracy and USB in bandwidth.
 
 
*) all that is only true when your music consists of straight beats and in the same tempo as the sequencer plays. free recording, or complex polyrythms, and that theory about good midi timing of ataris is dead.

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so , as i understood Atari ST /Macintosh cant record unquantized "freestyle" lets say "jazz" style  playing of complex rhythmic  notes patterns ?  .. like Logic Audio does or Ableton in no quantise with low latency settings on modern CPU macs for example , or MPC can do in no quantize or Hires modes ? i am confused ..

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