Hi, On Sunday 01 November 2009 16:47:44 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > i'm playing with my shiny new BCF2K, and i'm going to use it some > distance from my machine, so i'm going to try a midi link instead of USB. > what is the maximum length of midi chain that you have used without > problems? i read somewhere that no more than 15 meters are recommended, > which strikes me as pretty short even if it's unbalanced. > my idea is to abuse a cat5 cable as a triple midi loom - do you think > that could work? pinout would be as follows: > 1 midi 1 signal > 2 midi 1 ground > 3 midi 2 signal > 4 midi 2 ground > 5 midi 3 signal > 6 midi 6 ground > 7 common +5V > 8 common +5V
If you want to make use of the drilling of the pins in cat5, it should be 1+2 Midi 1 3+6 Midi 2 4+5 Midi 3 7+8 Midi 4 Why do you want to carry 5V? According to my docs, Midi is just Signal+ and Signal- and shield. Which, when carried over Cat5, should be all on the shield. I made myself some adaptors Midi->XLR->Midi a year ago but never actually used them to date. Have fun, Arnold
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