Ubuntu studio audio problem

[The Dong]

Jay Vaughan wrote:
> Yeah, exactly.  I have about 7 MIDI interfaces in the room, all of  
> them replaced with the ease of using these cables, which Linux seems  
> to recognize and use quite well .. where once it was a nearly-$1000  
> MIDI 19" rack doing all the deeds, now its a $20 USB hub and $100  
> worth of cables .. and everything just works, is tight, and so on ..

If one could be bothered, one could buy one or two good quality USB hubs 
and 4 or 8 (or however many) USB midi cables, strip out all the insides 
of their 19" Rack midi rack units (goodbye MOTU), maybe leave or make a 
5V supply into it if the hubs need it, then dump the hubs and cables in 
instead, so it still looks like the old interface but isn't, innit?

Only if these cheapo things don't choke or splutter tho...
It would still be quite costly as well.