[sdiy] Midi 3.5mm cable

[Ove Ridé]

The point of the apparently weird pinout is numbering compatibility with
other DIN connectors with a different number of pins. You start with DIN3
which only has pins 1, 2, 3 spaced far apart. DIN5 adds two pins, but the
position of 1, 2, 3 are preserved and pins 4 and 5 are placed between the
existing pins. Same concept for connectors with even more pins, as seen on
Commodore computers and many other things designed in the '80s.

On Wednesday, 24 August 2016, Jason Lim <jason at jhjlim.com> wrote:

> What has thrown me off is the DIN pin numbering, which is weird and goes:
> 1, 4, 2, 5, 3 (1 and 3 being the outer pins)
>


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/Ove

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