E-MU does it again
My previous MIDI interface, in the early Nineties, was through my soundcard's gamepad/serial port. After years in mothballs, I recently reassembled my equipment but couldn't get around the problem of latency with my MIDI wind-controller. I had read that USB was the norm with MIDI these days and so decided upon E-MU after reading several positive on-line reviews and factoring in cost.

The E-MU Xmidi 1x1 interface arrived in record time and was a snap to install. Now that I hear the difference in signal response from the 'old days' I'm very happy indeed. I also like that the lights in the unit tell when MIDI signal is passing through the device. It's makes troubleshooting a breeze. All-in-all, a great product that does it's job well.

This really wasn't what I thought it was....
Well it was but it wasn't it doesn't do exactly what I thought it would do I wanted this to try to pull recorded music off my Yamaha keyboard but instead it only hooks up to a computer to record new music that you play not prerecorded stuff that you already played.

It Just Works
Bought this to connect a Kawai MP9000 stage piano to a macbook pro using garageband. Works perfectly!

Very Simple to use
My computer does not have a MIDI port so I was looking for a simple, inexpensive way to connect my MIDI controller/keyboard and the EM8780 is exactly that. I am running Windows Vista and did not have any trouble with the drivers. I use Finale and did not have to do anything to the settings for the MIDI input to be recognized. This is a great product.

Nifty way to drive & receive MIDI signals from USB port
The cable provided a nifty way to drive and accept MIDI signals when you only have a USB port on your computer. I did notice a bit of lag in the action when pressing a key on the Roland MIDI keyboard and then hearing the sound from the speakers on the computer. But considering that I had no other method at hand for using MIDI with my computer it works pretty good.