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Subject: GUS Musician's Digest V10 #1

GUS Musician's Digest       Tue, 1 Nov 94 11:38 PST      Volume 10: Issue   1 

Today's Topics:
                     MIDI box, serial connection

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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:58:05 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: MIDI box, serial connection

Wonder if gus-music will bounce my attempt today? Not surprising there
weren't many contributions in today's Digest.

>	I just bought a Kawai KC20 synthesizer.  Besides standard MIDI 
>connections, it also has a serial port interface.  Does connecting this 
>to a computer require special software for the computer to recognize MIDI 
>data transmitted via a serial port?  Does MidiSoft recognize this 
interface?  Any other programs that do?

Unless someone else knows, you ought to find out from Kawai exactly
what their serial interface expects. The MIDI signals that come
out of the GUS game port are essentially the same as from a
serial port (except of course that the pin-outs are different, after
all this is meant to be a game port). The MIDI box converts these
signals to the 'current-loop' signals expected by MIDI devices.
This implies perhaps that you could connect the Kawai straight to the
game port without a MIDI box, so long as you had a suitable cable.

As for Windows software, MidiSoft and the other applications talk
to device driver software, not direct to the hardware. The
device driver for the GUS MIDI port is called ultmport.drv. To
get the apps to talk to one of the standard COM ports, you would
need a MIDI device driver which did this - I've no idea whether
this is available.

Clarke Brunt

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