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Intel had a couple of goals in mind when they invented USB. The first was to make the PC the center of
the universe. The second goal was to make adding USB compatibility to simple inexpensive peripherals
(think mouse) as cost effectively as possible. Thus, a DEVICE is cheap and simple and the HOST is not! As
a result, there aren’t very many USB HOSTs in the music world. The MRCC solves many of these issues.
With all that said the MRCC treats 5-Pin cables a bit differently than USB cables. Notably, the USB cable
is treated as both an in-port and an out-port, you can see each port has two physical buttons. Secondly,
multiple “virtual“ MIDI cables can be on one physical USB cable. More on this later.
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