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- From: damian@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Damian John AGIUS)
- Subject: Re: Problem with MIDI on SB Pro
- Message-ID: <9224809.16975@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <emm.714618979@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:57:35 GMT
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- emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo) writes:
-
- >Yesterday, the MIDI interface on my SoundBlaster PRO card seems to have
- >developed a fault. Two days before that it was working fine.
-
- >The problem is, the MIDI OUT line on the interface has stopped working
- >properly. i.e. I can't play midi data back to the synth from the computer.
- >It seems to be spasmodic, sending the data very occasionally. During playback
- >of a bit of music, I might get 1 or 2 notes out of 50 or so.
-
- Sounds like a problem I had with a dud serial line, what my problem was
- was horrendously simple, the screws on each side of the serial plug were
- interfering with the sitting of the plug, result no contact on a couple of
- the wires causing really bizarre, infrequant problems. In regards to
- the midi cable, it has a weird y-adapter, doesn't it? Check to see that no
- pins are bent/broken (that happened to my vga plug while trying to plug it in
- without turning the machine around...). If it is not that, then there is
- either a problem in the card, a dud midi cable (have one of those too...) or
- the midi recive on you sound box might have a problem. If you have (or can
- get) another midi box, try it out and see if the problem is still there.
-
- If none of these work (and they probably won't be any help) then I suggest
- buying a MPU 401 midi card. I know they're expensive and are only a midi
- interface, but are better at midi because that is what they were designed for.
-
-
- >The MIDI IN line still works fine (I can still record MIDI data from the
- >synth) and the rest of the SoundBlaster card seems to work find, it's just
- >the MIDI OUT line.
-
- This is interesting, makes it sound like a bad plug or midi line (the one
- that I have used at a friends place worked one day, and was dead the next).
-
-
- >Has anybody got an idea what the problem is and how to fix it??
-
- Hope I can help.
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