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 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: >> >> 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 comes with the device and >> talk to your keyboard. If the keyboard is an older one, or a less >> popular one, you may have to fiddle around to map the MIDI commands >> and such, but it can be done with patience. >> >> I have one of the older 2X2 Midisports and I used it under Windows >> before moving exclusively to Mac. It worked just fine with the Mac >> driver. >> >> Ignore the MIDI-through jack, by the way. Only useful if >> daisy-chaining devices and nobody does that anymore. Full in/out >> channels are just too cheap to need daisy-chaining (plus stock serial >> MIDI runs insanely slowly, about 38Kbps). >> >> 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. >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
