Overbridge & USB cables & ferrite beads

Patrick_DSP · 2015-04-25T08:52:31.000Z

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namnibor · 2015-04-25T17:47:41.000Z

Sometimes a red USB cable is just a red USB cable…lipstick on a pig, if you will. It’s ALL just marketing hype, that’s all.

I am more interested in how Elektron will prevent massive midi loop problems with OB.

TheRocketeer · 2015-04-25T18:29:33.000Z

""namnibor"":

Sometimes a red USB cable is just a red USB cable…lipstick on a pig, if you will. It’s ALL just marketing hype, that’s all.

I am more interested in how Elektron will prevent massive midi loop problems with OB.

are you speaking in terms of ground looping?
I’d be interested to know as well.

invisible_acropolis · 2015-04-25T19:51:18.000Z

[quote=““Patrick DSP””]
So, I’ll state the question in a simpler way:
Will a ferrite beaded usb affect overbridge/syncing/data adversely?
[/quote]

no - but only if you dance naked in a circle, under a full moon, in the 4th month of the year of the monkey - otherwise, the emf spirits will become angry, and give you bad audio

tebers · 2015-04-26T18:22:43.000Z

with an usb cable you transmit only digital data. dont worry about the ferrite

Ess · 2015-04-28T09:17:29.000Z

Ferrite beads should have no effect on the signal quality of Overbridge.

However, some USB cables with ferrite beads are proprietary and made exclusively for a certain device (often digital cameras, scanners) and they might handle the data in their USB protocol adjusted to the ferrite bead on their cable. It is quite unlikely that this would have any effects on other devices and USB protocols though.

In the end of the day it’s digital data, if it is a bit smoothed out or not, it’s still a high value and a low value and will be converted correctly.