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by galaxitor
Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:47 pm
Forum: Computer Related Hardware
Topic: Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer
Replies: 5
Views: 2534

Re: Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer

I come from a webdesign / multimedia environment, Michael and this MIDI thing reminds me of some of the odd decisions the World Wide Web Consortium makes every now and then, when it comes to standards and my reaction is "WHAT THE HELL THEY WERE SMOKING WHEN THEY DECIDED THIS?!?!?!?!". :)
by galaxitor
Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:37 pm
Forum: New? We're glad you're here!
Topic: Hello Everyone!
Replies: 4
Views: 2476

Re: Hello Everyone!

Thank You, Everyone! :-)
by galaxitor
Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:45 pm
Forum: Computer Related Hardware
Topic: Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer
Replies: 5
Views: 2534

Re: Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer

Thanks for your reply, Michael! I followed your advice, I tested the daughterboard as you suggested and it seems it is broken as I suspected. This morning I bough a class compliant MIDI-to USB as you suggested and plugged it as soon as I arrived home. It is a pronged MIDI-in and MIDI-out to USB cabl...
by galaxitor
Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:07 pm
Forum: Computer Related Hardware
Topic: Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer
Replies: 5
Views: 2534

Noob question (sorry!): connect keyboard to computer

Hi! I have a noob question (sorry!). I have Yamaha PSR- SQ16 keyboard and I want to connect it to my computer (OS: Ubuntu Studio 17.10) which has an old Sound Blaster Live! Platinum sound card. This sound card has a daughter board called Live drive II which has MIDI in and MIDI out ports. I connecte...
by galaxitor
Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:46 pm
Forum: New? We're glad you're here!
Topic: Hello Everyone!
Replies: 4
Views: 2476

Re: Hello Everyone!

Hi folderol It is a shock when you see how much has changed what you weren't looking isn't it? Oh, definitely. It seems it was only yesterday when I was an 8-years-old and my parents were buying me my first electronic piano, while I was ogling the much cooler looking synthesizer next to it (an Yamah...
by galaxitor
Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:49 pm
Forum: New? We're glad you're here!
Topic: Hello Everyone!
Replies: 4
Views: 2476

Hello Everyone!

Greetings from Porto, Portugal! I studied piano and organ when I was a little one till my teenage years and now, more than twenty years later, older and (barely) wiser, my interest for music came back when I discovered the fascinating world of software synthesizers (ZynAddSubFX, Yoshimi, amSynth, et...