Originally Posted by bobcarwell
Just got around to reading the reviews on Amazon for the Sanoxy cable. 40 of 400 "Does not work". No such thing as a free or under $10 lunch. What do you expect ?

Bob
In my experience, BB often does not work well with these cheap MIDI interfaces. We recommend a brand name one, and from my testing the Roland UM-One works reliably.

Originally Posted by AudioTrack
That's interesting, because (most) USB-3 computer ports also have USB-1.0 / 2.0 connections (there are two sets of power/data pins so that a USB-2.0 plug will use the USB-2.0 pins in the USB-3.0 socket. But maybe there are some USB-3.0 only connectors.
The USB2 connection on a USB3 port usually goes through the USB3 controller/root hub rather than a dedicated USB2 controller. What happens is the USB3 controller tries to initialize a USB3 device, and if that fails it initializes USB2 - some "dumber" devices fire the USB2 connection signals immediately when powered, which happens to be while the USB3 controller isn't ready.

Originally Posted by bobcarwell
From what I'm reading I'm out of luck with my alternative of using my old M-Audio Midisport 2x2 interface with USB. Its got to be 15 years old.
Apparently it is almost impossible to get a Windows 10 driver that works with it.
There are two versions of the Midisport 2x2 - one that is class compliant, and one that is not. The non-class-compliant one has drivers up to Windows 8, which some people have got working on Windows 10. Might be worth a shot.

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