EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 46, Issue 12 This issue's topics: MIDI programming with Windows? Which computer? (was: Re: Yamaha V50?) Which Midi Card for PC Which MIDI Card for PC? (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:06:30 CST From: Joseph Fosco Subject: MIDI programming with Windows? Has anyone done any Windows MIDI programming, particularly with Turbo C++. Also, has anyone done programming using Windows' MIDI mapper Any references would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Joseph Fosco Internet: b38669@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov Bitnet: b38669@anlvm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:08:37 EET From: Jari 'Jartsu' Lehto Subject: Which computer? (was: Re: Yamaha V50?) You (MFMAPWN@FS1.ART.MANCHESTER.AC.UK) wrote: > Does anyone out there know of any MIDI software compatible with > the Yamaha V50? Does anyone out there even know that this keyboard > exists? I'd appreciate any response. There have been quite many and will always be questions like this. Could you PLEASE always specify FOR WHICH COMPUTER the software is wished to be for, or what you are able to use. MS-DOS is no default for these questions. (It is the last possible solution, IMHO) -- ******************* "Jartsu" ********************** *********** Jari Lehto ************ **************** "I hate MS-DOS" ****************** ***** Finger jartsu@vipu.hut.fi for more info ***** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:45:07 -0800 From: mccalld@SONOMA.EDU Subject: Re: Which Midi Card for PC Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 18:39:21 -0800 From: mccalld@Sonoma.EDU To: mailer::"">" Subject: Re: Which MIDI Card for PC? About Soundblasters, mine allows me to record while listening to previous tracks! I am using Voyetra Gold and a simle SB 1.5 on my XT Clone 9mhz.... I havn't had any problems. Not only that, but I have mixed the channel 2 Soundblaster sounds thru some effects, ie zoom 9000, and then mixed the other sounds direct, like into my K1 or my CZ1000..... dmc mccalld@sonoma.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 18:56:43 GMT From: "(Kiernan Holland)" Subject: Re: Which MIDI Card for PC? In article igrdb@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Gringer) writes: >Sorry, I know, this is shurely a FAQ, but I didn't this group very often... > >I'm looking for a cheap MIDI-Card for a PC (may be an XT). It can >be a built-in-card or something to use the connectors on the >back of the PC (LPTx, COMx). > >Is there something recommendable? > >Thanks for any hints! > >Ingo > I have heard that the sounblasters are good for some things but not MIDI. What i heard was that they will not allow incoming midi signals at the same time as outgoing... therefore you can't record while you listen to the last set of tracks you layed down... I recommend a card that connects to the jacks in the back (RS-232 ports) becuase MIDI is nothing real special. I own a Amiga and this is how they use MIDI.. through the RS-232 serial port in the back.. The MIDI baud rate is about 31250 which is not fast enough to shoot more than 3 Kilobytes per second. No wonder it takes so long to upload samples to a sampler through MIDI. I bet it would be pretty simple to just make your own... this depends on how much electronic stuff the PC's require for a similar device. I know that for my first MIDI card there was only one TTL circuit and a few resistors. It looked really cheap. And it worked very well. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:17:00 EST From: Bruce Brown x12893 Subject: Re: Which MIDI Card for PC? >In article igrdb@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de >(Ingo Gringer) writes: >Sorry, I know, this is shurely a FAQ, but I didn't this group very often... > >I'm looking for a cheap MIDI-Card for a PC (may be an XT). It can >be a built-in-card or something to use the connectors on the >back of the PC (LPTx, COMx). > >Is there something recommendable? > >Thanks for any hints! > >Ingo > -------------------------------------------------- >>I bet it would be pretty simple to just make your own... this depends >>on how much electronic stuff the PC's require for a similar >>device. I know that for my first MIDI card there was only one TTL >>circuit and a few resistors. It looked really cheap. And it worked >>very well. ---------------------------------------------------- Along the same lines, in the March 1992 issue of Radio Electronics there is an article entitled "Build this midi interface for your pc". It describes design, parts, and construction, as well as provides a source for the entire kit. There are about three levels that you can purchase, such as printed circuit board only, printed circuit board and all parts, an additional midi port option, as well as all the above plus Voyetra SPJr sequencer software. It's not a very complicated project, mainly uart's, data buffer chips and some logic for picking up the pc's interrupt lines. Bruce Brown (brown1@niehs) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************