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I've had good luck with my Focusrite Saffire USB device. Both Windows and Linux. I recall orneriness in older devices...my old Firewire Focusrite had problems.

I've had good luck with my Focusrite Saffire USB device. Both Windows and Linux. I recall orneriness in older devices...my old Firewire Focusrite had problems. But, it's sad that any MIDI device can possibly have problems anywhere so long after its invention. I have a MIDI interface on a Commodore 64 that works reliably! Likewise, I used to do sequencing on an Amiga...worked fine for MIDI. Multi-track 16 bit audio was more of a challenge on such a small machine (started doing digital multitrack work with an Amiga 2000 with a 7.14Mhz CPU).

anigbrowl 13y ago
I was having a converstion with some friends about this the other day - people still miss their Atari STs and decades-dead products like Opcode's StudioVision. Microsoft just does not seem to get MIDI, which is one reason (among several other non-MS related ones) that I do almost all my sequencing in hardware.
- SwellJoe 13y ago
  There's still a large community of people making music on those old machines. Mostly chiptunes, rather than MIDI-oriented stuff (as far as I know)...but, some folks are driving their old machines via MIDI and simply using them as sound devices. Boots Riley of the Coup talked about using an ST for many, many years after it was out of date. I think he was using it up until Party Music (released in 2001, but it might have been the prior record. Atari Teenage Riot also keep pounding away on their STs well past their prime. I use a C64 and a Game Boy for music production these days; but I mostly play the 64 live (using the keyboard...not even a MIDI keyboard of piano overlay) and the Game Boy just exists as an independent music device. I've never tried combining its output with anything else. But, probably will eventually. If I were to find an Amiga 1200 or one of the latter day STs, in really good shape for not a lot of money, I'd probably pick it up. But, there are so many collectors of the old machines now, and so few remain in working condition, that it's not common to find them. I need to acquire a backup C64, though, for sure. I don't think there's good resources for repairing them the way there were when I was a kid.

anigbrowl 13y ago

I was having a converstion with some friends about this the other day - people still miss their Atari STs and decades-dead products like Opcode's StudioVision. Microsoft just does not seem to get MIDI, which is one reason (among several other non-MS related ones) that I do almost all my sequencing in hardware.

SwellJoe 13y ago
There's still a large community of people making music on those old machines. Mostly chiptunes, rather than MIDI-oriented stuff (as far as I know)...but, some folks are driving their old machines via MIDI and simply using them as sound devices. Boots Riley of the Coup talked about using an ST for many, many years after it was out of date. I think he was using it up until Party Music (released in 2001, but it might have been the prior record. Atari Teenage Riot also keep pounding away on their STs well past their prime. I use a C64 and a Game Boy for music production these days; but I mostly play the 64 live (using the keyboard...not even a MIDI keyboard of piano overlay) and the Game Boy just exists as an independent music device. I've never tried combining its output with anything else. But, probably will eventually. If I were to find an Amiga 1200 or one of the latter day STs, in really good shape for not a lot of money, I'd probably pick it up. But, there are so many collectors of the old machines now, and so few remain in working condition, that it's not common to find them. I need to acquire a backup C64, though, for sure. I don't think there's good resources for repairing them the way there were when I was a kid.