Attaching outboard MIDI devices, such as a musical keyboard or music sequencer, you run into the problem of all non-recent outboard gear having a DIN 5-pin plug and cable interconnect, whereas the MIDI IN to most (again non-recent, or at least low-end) sound cards is via the MIDI/gameport (joystick) socket. Clearly an interconnecting cable is required and so, not afraid of small soldering jobs, I constructed one using a suitable 15 pin 'D' plug and two MIDI leads. I took advice from the web regarding which pins the SB card would treat as 'hot' for MIDI IN and OUT plus one ground pin, soldered it up, plugged it in and NOTHING.
This was a week ago, since when I have tried multiple different outboard devices, all of which work just fine, in non pc applications. I have uninstalled the SB card and reactivated the onboard sound card AC97 on my 810i mobo, having reset the bios to enable the gameport. I have pc applications which use MIDI (Media Player, Cubase etc) all of which work fine, producing audible results either with the SB card or the onboard sound app.
Anyone with any ideas? I know it's my problem, but I just can't think of any more moves to make.
Thregwort UK
Silent (at the moment) former pro musician.
This was a week ago, since when I have tried multiple different outboard devices, all of which work just fine, in non pc applications. I have uninstalled the SB card and reactivated the onboard sound card AC97 on my 810i mobo, having reset the bios to enable the gameport. I have pc applications which use MIDI (Media Player, Cubase etc) all of which work fine, producing audible results either with the SB card or the onboard sound app.
Anyone with any ideas? I know it's my problem, but I just can't think of any more moves to make.
Thregwort UK
Silent (at the moment) former pro musician.