Yes the trouble with MIDI is of course jitter… e.g i had Pyramid send clock to one of my synths and if i look at the received clock (which is displayed!), wow - it’s all over the place, it can be over 1 BPM difference. 1m MIDI cable of highest quality…
These issues are totally gone with CV/Gate (i’m quite used to analog gear). I’m gonna have to do serious editing in the DAW if i ever complete a track (doubtful lol).
People have all sorts of dumb things they say to defend MIDI and latency, one is that you can’t hear less than 30ms latency (total BS), or the tired argument of how sound takes x amount of ms to reach your ear… it’s totally uninteresting, what matters is syncronization between the instruments in the song. If a drum hit is supposed to sound beautifully layered with another drum hit (just an example) it will not sound “bom!” it will sound “bbom!”, ratcheting effect, even if it’s just 2ms latency…
If the USB midi is even worse than regular MIDI then it’s a total skip for me anyways.