Many people seem never to have heard of MIDI USB hosts, and they are easy to miss, small as most of them are, but if you do anything with MIDI, they suddenly allow you to use most* MIDI controllers ever made with any MIDI hardware device, regardless of whether one is USB and the other DIN MIDI.

*I don't mention this in my video, but it's only Class Compliant USB MIDI devices (the ones that get full functionality using standard drivers as opposed to their own custom ones) that are guaranteed to work reliably with a standalone USB MIDI host. That basically means all current ones, but if you have a USB MIDI device that is older than ten years, there is a greater chance it might not.

It may be hard to find data one many legacy devices, but as a rule of thumb, if it works on your computer without installing its own drivers, then it should work with a MIDI host.

Note that many controllers that do come with their own drivers only use those for additional functionality, editors, and multi-application support, but they would still send standard MIDI messages without them. Also, there are several MIDI generating devices that need to be set to class compliance in their own setup menus, and without being set to the correct mode, they may also not work reliably or at all through a MIDI host.

Thanks to @Ian Whetstone for pointing this important point out to me that I hadn't addressed in the video.

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