I have researched this a bit and there could be USB compatiblity issues depending on your laptop if you are doing digital recording in addition to MIDI over USB. Still researching, but a good question for any USB MIDI product vendor is what USB controllers / controller flavors are supported. Then check this with what you have using, for instance, Device Manager in Windows. I have found that some vendors may support a family, but not all flavors (i.e. Intel 81802 family.) I have not heard of any issues if using USB for MIDI only.