Before buying it, I read a lot of polarized stories on it; or it was terrible or it was really great. Most of those posts were from before the new Win7 x64 drivers were made, and on XP.Frantz wrote: On my old PC, the timing of the Steinberg Midex 8 was so bad, I switched to a hardware sequencer for years but it may have been an issue with my PC.
Only issue I have with it is locking up when doing large sysex transfers, so I use the Midisport for that.