MIDI Connection for ACER Laptop
gibbsfamily
I have a Acer 505DX Laptop with COM, PRINTER & USB Ports.
Is there an easy way to connect it to a Music Keyboard/Organ that
has STANDARD MIDI IN & OUT. I have a Circuit for an Adaptor for
Desktop PC's that uses the Joystick/Soundcard Port. It provides
Midi IN OUT & THRU via the Joystick port, but it would be much
easier to plug in Laptop with suitable software and cable.
Thanks
gibbsey
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Jason Cunliffe
I have an Acer Travelmate7100 which I need MIDI for. I picked up a very
cheap Yamaha MU10 Ton generator. This is lightweight external synth with XG
series hardware inside. It has MIDI I/O [no through :-() + 2 A/D Imnputs so
you can process sound via the units DSP {very nice}. The nice thing is this
box allwos host selection to be wither MIDI or from Mac/PC. Thus is just
connects to the serial port and off you go. There are probably newer
versions oout their, which is also why these are very cheap. Min was new
from a Music Store in London who were dumping them along with a small MIDI
Keyboard.
Three other items I highly recommend are:
1. MidiOX http://members.xoom.com/MIDIOX/midiox.htm
2. MidiYoke http://members.xoom.com/MIDIOX/myoke.htm
MidiYoke allow a nice midi patchbay driver [works on Win32] in software.
Multiple MIDI apps can thus share midi events.
Especially nice is MidiOX which lets to watch your MIDI stream and lots
more. Great for debugin in the first case and then for all sorts of
processing and routing tricks.
3. Finally go get a copy of KeyKit 6.x from TimThompson. A superb Midi
programming environment for virtual instruments, alogorhtimic composition
etc etc. And a lot of fun and a full of inspirations
http://thompsonresidence.com/keykit/
All of the above software is free.
enjoy:-)
- Jason
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Sylvain Bazinet
> I have a Acer 505DX Laptop with COM, PRINTER & USB Ports.
>Is there an easy way to connect it to a Music Keyboard/Organ that
>has STANDARD MIDI IN & OUT. I have a Circuit for an Adaptor for
>Desktop PC's that uses the Joystick/Soundcard Port. It provides
>Midi IN OUT & THRU via the Joystick port, but it would be much
>easier to plug in Laptop with suitable software and cable.
>gibbsey
See the ShowPlay package. It comes with a free MIDI interface for the COM
port.
For about the price of a MIDI interface, you also get a footswitch input
connector and the outstanding ShowPlay software for playing MIDI.
Lyrics, multi-port, mixer, save during playback, tap-tempo, play-lists,
special requests, integrated lyrics editor, transposition, tempo change by
percentage, play from first note option, etc, etc.