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  From: Toby C <tjcorkin@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington" <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.GOV.AU>, <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.GOV.AU>
  Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:59:36 +1030

Re: MIDI cable for 15-pin sound blaster interface

Just as far as the MIDI cable pinouts go, I am pretty sure I used to have a
diagram showing which pins go where.
The MIDI electronics is ALL in the soundcard - all the midi cable does is
convert the plug type really.
If you search the web you might be able to get the diagram from somewhere.
I'll look over my harddrive myself today, but I've got to get to uni in 5
minutes, so I can't right now.
Seeyas
Toby

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.GOV.AU>
To: process9@lynx.net.au <process9@lynx.net.au>
Cc: Alan Kennington <alan.kennington@dsto.defence.GOV.AU>;
linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Monday, 2 November 1998 12:57
Subject: Re: MIDI cable for 15-pin sound blaster interface


>Kirsty,
>
>Outrageous price for MIDI breakout cable would be about $140.
>And that's what it seems is the going price.
>The reason I think it's outrageous price is the fact that my old Atari ST
>had it included for free -- the electronics is not that difficult.
>
>It seems that Dick Smith's do a kit for $40.
>But many years ago, I used some software (a device driver etc.)
>on a sparc station which used the built-in SCC chip (a Zilog of some sort)
>at a modified rate to get the 32.5 kbit/sec of midi.
>This has the advantage that you can give away softw3are
>to large numbers of people and get them to use it _wihtout_ having
>to go out and buy some kit or overpriced cable.
>
>The Y-cable for 15-pin sound card port to two joysticks is not costly.
>It's just the MIDI aspect.
>
>Anyway, I've decided to get the DS kit for $40 and solder it myself.
>I just wish the sound blaster people had designed their cards with
>the right electronics for MIDI on the card.
>But maybe the "business case" wasn't strong enough at the time.
>That's the trouble with MBAs running comapnies...
>
>Cheers and thanks for all the hints from you and others,
>Alan Kennington.
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