Where can I buy a cheap USB cable to send MIDI to an arduinoboy?
Last edited by D3LL (Feb 11, 2014 12:36 am)
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You mean a MIDI -> USB cable, correct? I bought mine from amazon for like $3 shipped.
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Jazzmarazz wrote:
You mean a MIDI -> USB cable, correct? I bought mine from amazon for like $3 shipped.
I'm not really sure what the specific name for it would be, but anything I can use to send MIDI to the arduinoboy via a computer
computer -midi-> the arduinoboy
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Or, you can cut out the middleman.
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Jazzmarazz wrote:
I looked at this one earlier, but wasn't quite sure if it was used to send midi to a computer to master.
In the description it said "This USB MIDI cable easily turns your computer into a music studio and gives you the power to play songs on your keyboard or other controller"
But if you have it or see anything otherwise please make note of it 
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DO NOT buy that kind of cable. It will basically only send sync. No data. They don't fully work. You need to spend closer to $30 and up unfortunately. I would recommend the M-Audio Uno:
http://m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html
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I'll probably end up just getting it to see, it's only six dollars.
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thursdaycustoms wrote:
DO NOT buy that kind of cable. It will basically only send sync. No data. They don't fully work. You need to spend closer to $30 and up unfortunately. I would recommend the M-Audio Uno:
http://m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html
Thanks, I'll definitely look into it
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D3LL wrote:
Jazzmarazz wrote:I looked at this one earlier, but wasn't quite sure if it was used to send midi to a computer to master.
In the description it said "This USB MIDI cable easily turns your computer into a music studio and gives you the power to play songs on your keyboard or other controller"
But if you have it or see anything otherwise please make note of it
Nitro suggested something better, but I own the cable I linked you to.
It pops up on your PC as a MIDI device which can both send and receive MIDI.
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Or you can use a ftdi cable and have the aboy use native USB midi.
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thursdaycustoms wrote:
DO NOT buy that kind of cable. It will basically only send sync. No data. They don't fully work. You need to spend closer to $30 and up unfortunately. I would recommend the M-Audio Uno:
http://m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno.html
Works for me and I have used PC trackers, keyboards and my digital sax. :shrug:
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Hm. Well I know a lot of them are missing the actual optoisolator. I bought 4 of them on eBay and they only did clock sync.
Maybe you got lucky and they finished assembling it!
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thursdaycustoms wrote:
Hm. Well I know a lot of them are missing the actual optoisolator. I bought 4 of them on eBay and they only did clock sync.
Maybe you got lucky and they finished assembling it!
You mean the circuit is printed there, but the hardware is simply missing? WTF!