using a very old keyboard with modern teaching software

[Diesel]

hi

is their any way that i can use a very old keyboard (Casio DM-100) with a
PC?

my daughter was given it and i'd like to be able to hook it up to her PC and
get software to help teach her to play (rather than keep hitting the
keyboard and running the sample tracks and causing a god awful racket).

many thanks

diesel

[Jeremy Martin]

("Diesel" <dies...@ntlworld.com>):

If it is a MIDI-compatible keyboard, you should be able to.

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[Laurence Payne]

Are there 5-pin DIN sockets on the back labelled Midi Out, Midi In?
If so, yes. If not, no.

But you knew that really, didn't you? :-)

My CubaseFAQ page: www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm

[Scott Moore]

I just did this (because I am cheap, dammit !). The Casio 210 is a peice of
junk, but thats all I needed right now. It is non - GM, but worked just fine
as a keyboard input to the computer feeding a good quality Turtle Beach
synth card that is GM. It has 20 patch selects, which turn out to be 1 to 20
on the patch map. I pasted GM labels over the non-gm labels, so now it looks
like a GM keyboard that can only reach the first 20 patches. Even that does
not matter with right software. My Midi program (Voyetra, bargan basement,
told you I was cheap) can reassign the incoming midi to any channel and patch.

I can't help with the racket part.

[Diesel]

"Laurence Payne" <l...@laurenceDELETEpayne.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Are there 5-pin DIN sockets on the back labelled Midi Out, Midi In?
> If so, yes. If not, no.
>
> But you knew that really, didn't you? :-)

kind of suspected it! was just hoping.

thanks anyway.

Diesel

[Ian Henden]

But you MIGHT need to add a midi interface (around £20) if the electrical
loading imposed by the keyboard is too great for your soundcard. This
applies particularly if you have an older keyboard.
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[Laurence Payne]

What on earth are you talking about? :-)
If you want to make a midi connection, it will of course be to a midi
interface. If your computer hasn't got one, you'll need to get one.
The electrical properties of midi haven't changed over it's
(relatively short) life.

>But you MIGHT need to add a midi interface (around £20) if the electrical
>loading imposed by the keyboard is too great for your soundcard. This
>applies particularly if you have an older keyboard.

>>

>> > Are there 5-pin DIN sockets on the back labelled Midi Out, Midi In?
>> > If so, yes. If not, no.

My CubaseFAQ page: www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm

[Ian Henden]

Plug the midi connectors of a Casio ctk-650 directly to the appropriate
soundcard port, using a "midi" cable (MAPLIN part no YZ26D)..... and it
doesn't work.

Do the same exersize with a midi interface (MAPLIN part no KQ14Q) and it
_does_ work.

Nothing else has changed, merely the introduction of the midi interface,
which I beleive is an opto-isolator. It allows the INFORMATION to pass from
one part of the systen to the other, without one part of the system making
electrical demands on the other.

Might not always be necessary: but in some set-ups it may be the answer to a
non-functioning situation....

Hope that helps.

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