MIDI Interface Basics
Having heard about MIDI, are you eager to set up your own MIDI home studio? Genuinely, you are able to complete that for several hundred dollars assuming you currently own a decent MIDI to USB personal computer. Actually, a home studio can cost a lot more than that, but several hundred dollars really should take care of the basics for you personally. But be warned, in the event that you catch "MIDI fever" as so many have, you're likely going to be spending a lot more cash, even to the point of selling your refrigerator (or your kidney) to get a lot more MIDI gear.
Among others, MIDI ISA cards include the Roland MPU-401 (or MPU-IPC) and the MusicQuest MQX--32. our best bet, nevertheless, is to invest in an external MIDI interface box which will connect to the laptop's MIDI to USB port, like the MidiMan MidiSport series, the Edirol UM-880, as well as the UM-2. Even more, the Roland JV-5030 can be a sound module having a built-in MIDI interface that can be attached directly to a USB port - thereby killing two birds with one stone, despite the fact that you'll want a serial MIDI driver for your operating system.
So that you can set up your MIDI home studio, you are going to require hardware that permits MIDI input and output - in other words, hardware that facilitates the transfer of MIDI information to and from a computer as well as a MIDI Interface or some comparable MIDI unit. You are able to recognize such a unit by the "MIDI IN" and "MIDI OUT" jacks, which is going to be labeled as such on the outside from the unit itself.
Some of these interfaces are barely "external" at all - they're nothing at all more than cards that you plug into your personal computer. Others are small boxes attach for your computer's USB port or elsewhere. Do not forget that this piece of hardware is an interface, not a sound module. If you'd like your studio to be able to play actual sounds, your going to need to have added hardware to connect to those MIDI IN and MIDI OUT jacks.
Either way, buying something that you simply can plug into your computer's MIDI to USB port is probably better because that's where the market appears to be heading at this point.
Among others, MIDI ISA cards include the Roland MPU-401 (or MPU-IPC) and the MusicQuest MQX--32. our best bet, nevertheless, is to invest in an external MIDI interface box which will connect to the laptop's MIDI to USB port, like the MidiMan MidiSport series, the Edirol UM-880, as well as the UM-2. Even more, the Roland JV-5030 can be a sound module having a built-in MIDI interface that can be attached directly to a USB port - thereby killing two birds with one stone, despite the fact that you'll want a serial MIDI driver for your operating system.
So that you can set up your MIDI home studio, you are going to require hardware that permits MIDI input and output - in other words, hardware that facilitates the transfer of MIDI information to and from a computer as well as a MIDI Interface or some comparable MIDI unit. You are able to recognize such a unit by the "MIDI IN" and "MIDI OUT" jacks, which is going to be labeled as such on the outside from the unit itself.
Some of these interfaces are barely "external" at all - they're nothing at all more than cards that you plug into your personal computer. Others are small boxes attach for your computer's USB port or elsewhere. Do not forget that this piece of hardware is an interface, not a sound module. If you'd like your studio to be able to play actual sounds, your going to need to have added hardware to connect to those MIDI IN and MIDI OUT jacks.
Either way, buying something that you simply can plug into your computer's MIDI to USB port is probably better because that's where the market appears to be heading at this point.
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