> > The best card for you the get is the Yamaha SW1000XG-it works well
> with NT
> > which is not midi friendly at all and not designed to be.
> > JB
> I don't have to use NT, I can go to W95 or W2000. Would that be
> better? What are the advantages?
From what I've pieced together, MS had a hart time getting a 32 bit
timer driver to be stable, so the timing of MIDI in NT is very bad (try
playing some midi tunes in NT 4 and you can hear what I mean). Win 9x/ME
use a 16 bit driver that is somewhat accurate and will allow you to do
some accurate playback and sync audio and midi. I don't know about
Win2000, since I've not found 2k drivers yet that support MIDI with my
setup.
Also, DirectX >3 is supported in the non NT variations, which may be a
requirement of plugins and the like for digital audio packages
(cakewalk, etc.)
Brent