How to Connect a MIDI to a Game Port Cable
Connecting a MIDI keyboard to your computer allows you to use the keyboard with music composing and mixing software to record and save your compositions. You can connect a MIDI keyboard to a computer game port with a game port to MIDI adapter cable. The adapter cable has a rectangular 15-pin game port plug at one end and round 5-pin input and output MIDI plugs on the other.
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Instructions
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Plug the 15-pin game port connector into the 15-pin female connector jack on the back of your computer tower. The 15-pin connector is connected to the sound card on your computer, which will translate the data sent by the MIDI keyboard and turn it into sound.
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Insert the 5-pin MIDI "IN" plug into the port marked "OUT" on the back of your MIDI keyboard.
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Insert the 5-pin MIDI "OUT" plug end into the port marked "IN" on the back of your MIDI keyboard.
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Start your music software. Click on "MIDI Setup Menu", "Devices," "Options," "MIDI preferences" or "Equipment," depending on your software. Click on the sound card MIDI input and output driver of your computer so the program records the information going from your MIDI keyboard into your sound card. Set the "Output Driver" to use the "MIDI Out," "MPU-401" or "External MIDI" to have the sound be produced by your keyboard. Set the "Input Driver" to "MIDI IN," "MPU-401" or "External MIDI" to get the computer to record from your keyboard.
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