MIDI ports

ikickuintheballs · #1 03-08-2001, 07:54 PM

What's a good inexpensive MIDI port to start with. I'm just going to be using my keyboard with it. Thanks

Bruce Lindfield · #2 03-12-2001, 07:32 AM

What do you mean by "port" in this case? I would have thought that virtually every electronic keyboard around nowadays, had midi ports built-in already? If it didn't then you're buggered anyway and wouldn't be able to do anything with midi unless you were some kind of electronics genius?

Joe Nerve · #3 03-12-2001, 07:50 AM

Soundblaster Live. Around $200.

Bruce Lindfield · #4 03-12-2001, 09:01 AM

That's not what I would call a "port" as such - that's a sound card or you might call something like this a "midi interface" for a PC. Most of the PCs I've seen recently have had soundcards built in anyway.

I think you need to be clear about terms in this area - I have several bits and pieces that are interfaces and provide midi ports, but a sound card is something different.

ikickuintheballs · #5 03-12-2001, 07:18 PM

I need something I can plug my keyboard into that'll go to my computer so I can record with MIDI.

fakeschenk · #6 03-12-2001, 11:49 PM

The Midi-Sport 2x2, it hooks into the USB Port in your PC and works great...Relatively inexpensive too..$69.95 at www.Midi-store.com

ikickuintheballs · #7 03-13-2001, 12:53 PM

thanks.

sixandeightstringer · #8 03-13-2001, 10:32 PM

If your soundcard has a 15 pin (joystick) port, you can get a cable for between $15-20 dollars that will give you 1 MIDI in and 1 MIDI out.

It's called a "Joystick Port Interface" or Mpu-401 cable, depending on who you ask.