[sdiy] midi cable

[Christian]

Thanks for all your input on this one guys.

I managed to finally sort it - It was a PC configuration issue, the
cable was OK. Still, it started some nice conflab about Midi-ing PC's.
My own use is to run two PC's together, one using Cubast VST and a few
Virtual Instruments, and the other PC as a dedicated sampler running
Gigastudio.

BTW, anyone with a Soundblaster Live - I can recommend the APS drivers
- Installing these has changed the machine very much for the better -
8mS or so latency, and I can run more virtual stuff now - It handles
it much better than the Live drivers too.
Shame Creative couldn't have developed something.

Christian

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:46:28 -0500, you wrote:

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>Christian wrote:
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>> I have made a DIY cable with two 5 pin DIN Sockets on either end, so
>> that the two 5 pin DIN outputs of the PC link together.
>> I am using a short length of cable (1 meter) with 2 wires and a
>> shield. I link pin 2 to the shield and 5 and 4 to the other wires.
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>so it's one cable with two plugs on each end?  How many wires are you
>using in the cable?  Seems like you'd have to be using 5 if not 6 to
>make it work.  And of course remember that the 'out' of one, goes to
>the 'in' of the other...
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>Kinda funny, I was just thinking about this very thing yesterday. 
>Running music software on a Mac laptop, and running midi-triggerable
>video sequencing software on a NT Laptop.... the Mac would trigger the
>video.... just a dream of course..
>-ben
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