As was mentioned you might get latency and/or drop outs. Just give it a shot and see what happens. It's not gonna hurt anything.

OK So many warnings here about the fact that long USB cables will probably not work and if latency is involved that's a huge danger, you might not even notice if it's minor, but who wants latency in their recordings. After reading the warnings I wouldn't even try it. 

I like the idea of a second monitor. I already use a wireless mouse and keyboard for vocals. I'm not in a closet,  but I move back 15 ' away from the DAW just to remove the little bit of fan noise. But I find it hard to position the mouse from that distance so I like the idea of having a monitor close at hand. 
Either that or I'm going with the 38" TV. 

I use a 5 foot USB extension for the mouse adapter to position it on the table. Works way better than on the back of the computer.

That's exactly how mine is set up. That way the hub gives the USB a JOLT of extra power before reaching the interface.
 
The hub allows me to use everytning USB with 2 different computers.
 
Some say hubs aren't good to use but mine works pretty well. Still, the shorter the distance for any cord the better.
 
 
Steve

some devices require a direct connection

some do not

The USB cable length limitation is not some arbitrary value, but is based on real-world physics that you can't get around.

Absolutely...
I've got a couple keyboards that connect via USB.
Go beyond 15' with the cable... and they sometimes don't work. (aka unreliable)
I've also seen this with the RME Babyface.  It's a great unit... but unreliable when connected with a long USB cable.

My parents have an expensive audio interface for listening purposes only. They had me snake one of those 32 foot cords (gosh it was long) around their bedroom to the stereo where the interface lives so they could lay in bed and listen to their 24 bit flacs while surfing the WWW. It has worked fine for them. I can tell you it works, but latency wouldn't matter much to them.

SuperG


According to wikipedia, the maximum length for USB 2.0 is 5 meters, and that sounds about right. The reason for this is that the max timeout for a command reply is 1.5us, and the cable should be no more than 26ns total. You're looking at a max of 15 feet.

All I know is it works. Quality is great, with my latency set to 2ms. I even did a test recording where I recorded to the beat of SONAR's metronome, and everything was perfectly on beat. Good in my book.

vaultwit

SuperG


According to wikipedia, the maximum length for USB 2.0 is 5 meters, and that sounds about right. The reason for this is that the max timeout for a command reply is 1.5us, and the cable should be no more than 26ns total. You're looking at a max of 15 feet.

All I know is it works. Quality is great, with my latency set to 2ms. I even did a test recording where I recorded to the beat of SONAR's metronome, and everything was perfectly on beat. Good in my book.

It usually does - engineers always design beyond specification. The latency specified for USB has little to do with what is commonly tossed about here. There, latency refers to the processing delay caused by sample processing itself With USB (as in ethernet) it refers to the maximum time a client must wait before response - and the times are so short that the very length of the cable becomes a significant factor. Still, if you look at the numbers, cable delay is specified in nanoseconds. The delay you're using is all due to processing - the cable is simply insignificant.

Yeah, really. If it works it works. No need to speculate beyond that (although it is kind of fun and interesting). That's why I kept saying just try it. I've done TONS of things in my life music related and otherwise that you probably SHOULDN'T do but they ended up providing the end result I wanted. That really is all that matters. 

That said I'd be vigilant in keeping a close eye and ear on the waves for minute dropouts and the like just in case. It sucks thinking you've gotten something tracked perfectly then when trying to mix you hear an imperfection and have to shift gears and do it over again.

Cheers.

Beepster


Yeah, really. If it works it works. No need to speculate beyond that (although it is kind of fun and interesting). That's why I kept saying just try it. I've done TONS of things in my life music related and otherwise that you probably SHOULDN'T do but they ended up providing the end result I wanted. That really is all that matters. 

That said I'd be vigilant in keeping a close eye and ear on the waves for minute dropouts and the like just in case. It sucks thinking you've gotten something tracked perfectly then when trying to mix you hear an imperfection and have to shift gears and do it over again.

Cheers.

Yeah I'm just glad it works and I'm excited about being able to use this setup. I actually did a full vocal recording session last night, and assembled all the takes afterwards and didn't notice a single artifact or imperfection while examining the takes. Whew! Although I agree and will be paying closing attention in the future though.