Q&A General

No. CopperLan is a powerful communication system which, next to its compatibility with MIDI, offers a lot more than just a protocol. (e.g. virtual and physical networking, auto-identification, streaming management, ...)

Nothing! To communicate with the outside world, CopperLan uses the interfaces that are present on every computer.
The CopperLan Manager is available at no cost. From here on, your computer is ready to run CopperLan applications as well as MIDI over CopperLan.

CopperLan is an initiative of Klavis Technologies s.a., a company totally independent from the companies implementing CopperLan. This independence forms the guarantee that CopperLan evolves harmoniously to the benefit of all parties involved.

Since day one, CopperLan runs on Windows XP (32 & 64), Vista (32 & 64), Windows 7 (32 & 64) and MAC-OS X (Mac Intel).
We are convinced of the relevance of porting CopperLan to Linux and plans are in place to support it in the near future.

Sensible of the philosophy of the freeware community, CopperLan is willing to support these goals by offering a cost-free model. The freeware license gives access to a freeware-specific development platform, including a wiki documentation set and a dedicated forum.

Since CopperLan does fine with Ethernet, it flows equally well through Wi-Fi. For most uses requiring instant reaction time, the added latency due to data encryption and error correction inherent in all wireless communications may not be acceptable; nevertheless, non real-time applications such as editing could certainly benefit from being cable-free.