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connecting a midi keyboard to a PC Posted by diane (from: 64.216.222.243) on August 30, 2001 at 19:11:50: I have only owned a PC for about a month. I had been using a Macintosh. The Sony PC doen't have a gameport--which I now know is what I need to connect a midi piano to it. So will be buying a new sound card for the PCI slot. Will the $50 16 bit SoundBlaster card work? All I want to do is play songs on the piano keyboard and have it written as music score with the music notation software I plan to buy. Up til now I just plugged the midi piano into the modem serial port of the Mac and setup was complete-- but I want to switch over to the PC. I have also heard that a midi interface box is one way to go, but doesn't that also need a gameport to plug into? I do have headphone,line-in and microphone ins on the PC. Does the adjacent 9 pin serial port have anything to do with the sound card and making music with a PC? Midi files do play just fine on the internal Micorsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth(whatever that is). Thanks for any advice. Follow Ups: Re: connecting a midi keyboard to a PC jon 18:39:46 8/31/01 (1) Re: connecting a midi keyboard to a PC Rob 05:24:44 2/15/04 (0) Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: : I have only owned a PC for about a month. I had been using a Macintosh. The Sony PC doen't have a gameport--which I now know is what I need to connect a midi piano to it. So will be buying a new sound card for the PCI slot. Will the $50 16 bit SoundBlaster card work? All I want to do is play songs on the piano keyboard and have it written as music score with the music notation software I plan to buy. Up til now I just plugged the midi piano into the modem serial port of the Mac and setup was complete-- but I want to switch over to the PC. : I have also heard that a midi interface box is one way to go, but doesn't that also need a gameport to plug into? I do have headphone,line-in and microphone ins on the PC. Does the adjacent 9 pin serial port have anything to do with the sound card and making music with a PC? Midi files do play just fine on the internal Micorsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth(whatever that is). : Thanks for any advice. Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Music Software Discussion & Help Page ] [ FAQ ]

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