my setup

[tom bruise]

i thought id share my set up with you



keyboard bottom left is a m audio axiom 25 midi keyboard

bottom right is a microkorg synth

left middle is a midi contoller fo my dj'ing

middle right 2 fire wire soundcards and an external hd (westerndigital)

top is speakers and laptop

[barrowlocal]

Cool!!

And i like your laptop raise, where can I get one of them??!! lol

x

[Daniel]

Oooh, Microkorg. Cool.

[ColinC]

Nice one Tom. I've got a midi keyboard here but I got a new PC a couple of years ago and I've never been able to get the midi connections working. Any ideas? It was fine with windows 98 but I can't get a thing out of it with XP.

[tom bruise]

is it midi cables or usb midi?
what are you hooking it up to

and more details?

[ColinC]

is it midi cables or usb midi?
what are you hooking it up to
and more details?

It's a Roland E38 keyboard (MPU-401 compatible) which used to hook up to my old PC via midi in/out cables to it's D-connector "games port". The keyboard then fell into dis-use for a couple of years by which time I was running windows XP (again with a MPU-401 compatible sound card bought specifically for it) which I've never been able to get working.

According to XP "this device is working properly" (the PC doctor in barrow confirmed that though he admits he knows sod-all about MIDI) and the cables check out electrically plus the keyboard appears to work fine in all other respects... They just won't talk to each other and I haven't a clue what to try next!

[Jam of the vinyldroppers]

theyre trusty speakers them pioneers..
do you ever feel you need more room for all your equipment?
or is my room getting smaller!

jam

[tom bruise]

is it midi cables or usb midi?
what are you hooking it up to
and more details?

It's a Roland E38 keyboard (MPU-401 compatible) which used to hook up to my old PC via midi in/out cables to it's D-connector "games port". The keyboard then fell into dis-use for a couple of years by which time I was running windows XP (again with a MPU-401 compatible sound card bought specifically for it) which I've never been able to get working.

According to XP "this device is working properly" (the PC doctor in barrow confirmed that though he admits he knows sod-all about MIDI) and the cables check out electrically plus the keyboard appears to work fine in all other respects... They just won't talk to each other and I haven't a clue what to try next!

hmm, im not to sure then it might just be its age, you colud look for some midi transation software such a s bomes or midiyoke but there long shots

[tom bruise]

theyre trusty speakers them pioneers..
do you ever feel you need more room for all your equipment?
or is my room getting smaller!

jam

yep, but i wont be getting any new equipment for a while now

[Tigress Eyes]

that laptop raise looks like the top of one of those plastic clothes airers...
and man! you need some cable tidies!!!

[tom bruise]

that laptop raise looks like the top of one of those plastic clothes airers...
and man! you need some cable tidies!!!

it is a radiator clothes drier!


i move it all round too much to keep the cabels tidy, that whole room is a wire hell!!

[Tigress Eyes]

Oh that would so "do my head in".
we have 4 computers in our house as my hubby is a computer engineer and the cables are a total nightmare!
He has a whole cupboard full of cables and old computer parts.
Thankfully he is a "cable tidy guy" but I'm sure when our baby daughter sees them dangling wires when she's crawling those cable tidies might come in useful for handcuffs...hahahahaha
I'm joking!!!!!!!!