[sdiy] MIDI to COM port driver

[johnspeth at yahoo.com]

Hi everybody-

Here's an odd query.  I'm looking for a windows driver that will serve as a MIDI output port but electrically output to an RS232 COM port.  Does anyone know of such a driver?

I suppose demand for such a driver would be close to nil.  I intend to use it for my experiments with Altium Designer and Nanoboard, a *really* cool unified design tool which runs from circuit design and spice on up to PCB layout and FPGA design including embedded cores.  I think it also integrates with physical design tools too.  Nanoboard doesn't have a MIDI port but it does have an RS232 port that I would like to use for testing the MIDI software interface in lieu of a MIDI hardware interface.

Thanks, John Speth.