Simple Home Midi Set Up Help

Posted on Oct 02, 2005 06:16 pm
Snake_Bite
Wannabe Producer/Tech Student
Member Since: Aug 11, 2005

I write alot of songs and to save me hastle and time i wanna set up a simple midi system on one of my computers, so if i have a song idea i can quickly wak it down with midi rather than have to record my songs in audio.

My sound card has GM on it, which is all i need so no need to get a sound module, and im using cubase sx as my sequencer and i know all this works fine with midi as im able to make midi tracks by just inputing the data manually, but obviously a trigger would be alot easier and quicker rather than using the pencil tool every step of the way.

i have a bog standard keyboard which will make a fine midi trigger, but im not sure how to connect it to the PC, ive read about using the joy stick port or USB ports in conjuction with the midi in/outs on the keyboard, but i wanna know wat to do before i go out and buy the cables which is all i need to get this working (In thorey).

so in a nutshell, where do i plug in my keyboard and what do i change in the software to make cubase recognise it.

ne helpful comments welcome, thanks

chris

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