>Nobody said MIDI can't be done on NT. It's just that the timing is >very unstable, and that's not Steinberg's fault this time. It has >to do with the fundamental nature of NT itself, and how it does >tons of interupts as part of pre-emptive multitasking. Timing >application considerations were never given much importance when >NT was conceived. Contrast this with BeOS, where timing is likely >written in big bold letters on their programmers' mandate chart. All modern OSes, including MacOS, use interrupts to multitask. The problem is how the OS prioritizes the interrupts. >MacOS is much more stable than NT, MacOS, in its present incarnation, is not as stable as NT4 for networking (which is what NT was designed for). >, but that's mostly because it doesn't >do pre-emptive multitasking (something that Mac OSX will do, and that >hopefully doesn't have the NT timing trouble). Windows 98 is also a pre-emptive multitasking OS but the MIDI timer is incomparably better than NT4's. It's not the multitasking that's the problem with NT4. It's the implementation of the MIDI timer. >By the way, Nuendo still doesn't have the latency thing under >control. It's a whopping 1,500 Useconds. Better than lots, >but not even vaguely in the ballpark of ProTools or even >AudioMedia III with DAE. 1500 Useconds is 1.5ms. Is that "whopping"? Anyway, since Emagic have announced Windows 2000 (an NT-based OS) support for Logic, it's pretty clear that the MIDI timing issues that have plagued NT to date have now been resolved. I'm curious about how Logic will see the dongle though, since apps can't access hardware directly in NT. Tash