I have messed with midi fairly extensively on a PC. I know that I had to
have a joystick connector that also doubled as a midi connector. I
actually built my own midi extension cables because the factory ones were
too short for my purposes. The port was a "D" shaped connection on the
sound card. I used a program on the PC called Cakewalk that was pretty
decent. I am sure that there are even better programs for the Macs.
One of my favorite tricks with midi was to capture my kids voices as a .wav
file and import it as a midi sound. You can play it up and down the
keyboard as you would any of the 128 midi effects.
Wish I knew more about the Mac and midi. I pretty much just use my Mac at
work as a graphics workhorse. Whoaaa!
Ray White
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"Brian O'Neal"
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12/15/2005 11:38 PM
Please respond to macgroup
Older pc sound cards had a midi input on them. I think it was like
an 11 or 13 pin d shaped port. Unless you can find a converter to
make it a standard midi jack, and buy an interface box to plug it
into the mac, your probably out of luck.
Maybe someone knows more about this than me... Anyone???
Brian O'Neal
On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Stephen Ellis wrote:
I have a keyboard I originally purchased to use with Finale for
Windows. The MIDI Out jack is labeled "to sound card." Any thoughts
on what I might do to hook this up to my mac?
Steve
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