And oddly, every thread that appears - seems to have been generated more than a year ago...
I take it that someone else out there, who caves, or reads off topic caving posts may also be a closet musician - and possibly also might have some experience controlling music devices with computers.... Most of what I once claimed expertise in seems a little fuzzy now. Back then when I first plugged a pricey gadget called MPU-401 into the ISA slot of my IBM XT - things seemed a whole lot simpler. Of course interuppts and IO addresses were totally dedicated. No flippity-floppity plug and play back then. You always knew where things stood back then. "Windows" was in its infancy. Recently I bought a USB Midi interface to hook my old Kawai keyboard up to my newest gigapowered laptop. Although one of the most recent versions of Cakewalk Home Studio runs flawlessly on my laptop - when I attempt to play the virtual wavetable synthesizers that "reside" within my laptop - I have problems. Playback from the computer TO my old keyboard works fine. Multiple notes work - pitch bend and mod wheel information seem to have no problem at all being understood by the old Kawai. However, when using the keyboard as a controller - things hardly work at all. But it does - sortof. I can "PLAY" the computer with the old keyboard But... Only.... One... Note... At... A... Time... AND you cannot make chords, notes cannot be played very fast AND usually when you release a key - some other key seems to still be "ON". Midi protocol specifies that key ON is one event and key OFF is another. Multiple key ONs make a chord. (The delay between bytes transmitted is so incredably fast, that the ear hears chords, not glisses.) According to the Chinese distributor of the MIDI USB device - "No driver needed". I must have missed someting. Anyone else know anything about this stuff?????? -WaV
