Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-17 Thread Carlos R.
El 17/03/2012 0:07, Cotty escribió: On 16/3/12, Carlos R., discombobulated, unleashed: I have seen that MIDI to USB converter cables are easy to find, but knowing nothing about MIDI my questions are: What more is needed for his intended purpose? A Mac. End of. -- Thanks for your help,

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-17 Thread Carlos R.
El 16/03/2012 20:14, steve harley escribió: on 2012-03-16 6:56 Bruce Walker wrote He might consider someday moving up to a keyboard with a USB connector that supports MIDI over USB. Pretty much the modern standard. Look around the M-Audio site. there are several USB-based keyboards that are

OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread Carlos R.
I know this a completely off-topic question, but I bet there is someone in the PDML who can help a friend of mine to solve his doubts. He's 75 and a computer illiterate. I've been helping him to grasp the basics of Internet and Windows use since last summer. So far I've taught him how to

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread Bruce Walker
MIDI is a world of weird, but I'd advise you/your friend to get one of these: http://m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html M-Audio stuff has excellent cross-platform compatibility, in general, and excellent software support. Any decent music package will automatically detect the MIDI driver that

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread Carlos R.
Thanks for your advice, Bruce. This is the kind of solution I was looking at, but I wasn't completely sure whether it would work. El 16/03/2012 13:56, Bruce Walker escribió: MIDI is a world of weird, but I'd advise you/your friend to get one of these:

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread Bruce Walker
You're welcome, Carlos. I've got a whole bunch of older MIDI gear, synths, keyboard controller, and it all talks nicely to any music workstation software I've used, like Cubase and Logic. Best of luck! On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Carlos R. crls.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread steve harley
on 2012-03-16 6:56 Bruce Walker wrote He might consider someday moving up to a keyboard with a USB connector that supports MIDI over USB. Pretty much the modern standard. Look around the M-Audio site. there are several USB-based keyboards that are reasonable quality and they are so

Re: OT: Question about a MIDI keyboard and USB port

2012-03-16 Thread Cotty
On 16/3/12, Carlos R., discombobulated, unleashed: I have seen that MIDI to USB converter cables are easy to find, but knowing nothing about MIDI my questions are: What more is needed for his intended purpose? A Mac. End of. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places,