[sdiy] slightly OT MIDI query

[anthony]

Well I listened to the first poster and they were right. I took a gamble and 
pluggged the cable marked 'OUT' to the socket marked 'IN' and the cable 
marked 'IN' to the socket marked 'OUT' and it worked like a charm. Hooray!

I wonder: do the arrows on your interface go different directions? If so 
that would make sense then.

> Actually, to confuse things, my cheap USB interface with fixed cables
> has OUT -> and IN -> on its cable jacks, and it's refering to where
> they should be plugged on the device you're interfacing with. Pretty
> stupid if you ask me. I'd wager yours are the same.
>
> On 10/27/06, anthony <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
>>
>> My question is do I match up the wrods on the plugs to the identically 
>> named
>> ones on my QY10 OR are they labeling what they are on the PC end? If 
>> they'd
>> made the arrows point in different directions I think the answer would be
>> obvious, but with both arrows poiting the same way it's confusing.
>