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Midi to USB or Firewire interface
- Thread starter d_drmr
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Take a look at using the game port on a sound card; that's one of the most popular ways. Sequencing programs such as Cakewalk have built-in support for that.
There used to be dedicated MIDI interface cards available, but you'll probably find that a sound card will be a more economical and versatile approach, not to mention more available.
MIDI is quite slow compared to USB; although it's pretty versatile it's still a relatively ancient specification.
Older MIDI instruments would have a hard time with a speedy data pipeline. I have to slow things down quite a bit when I'm talking to my ancient Roland U20 keyboard, or I get parity errors - it simply can't keep up. It's my understanding that Rolands were notoriously slow in the MIDI department anyway.
I had a Midiman midi interface board for an 8088 IBM PC clone computer that I'd bought in the late 1980's. Midiman is now M-Audio, they're still around under the new name. Their website:
http://www.m-audio.com/
You want an interface with low latency. It's going to be tough trying to build something that'll work anywhere near as well as one of their commercial products - and you'll have invested a lot of time and money to boot.
There used to be dedicated MIDI interface cards available, but you'll probably find that a sound card will be a more economical and versatile approach, not to mention more available.
MIDI is quite slow compared to USB; although it's pretty versatile it's still a relatively ancient specification.
Older MIDI instruments would have a hard time with a speedy data pipeline. I have to slow things down quite a bit when I'm talking to my ancient Roland U20 keyboard, or I get parity errors - it simply can't keep up. It's my understanding that Rolands were notoriously slow in the MIDI department anyway.
I had a Midiman midi interface board for an 8088 IBM PC clone computer that I'd bought in the late 1980's. Midiman is now M-Audio, they're still around under the new name. Their website:
http://www.m-audio.com/
You want an interface with low latency. It's going to be tough trying to build something that'll work anywhere near as well as one of their commercial products - and you'll have invested a lot of time and money to boot.
