i just thought of the weirdest thing ever. what if we could use the madcatz gameboy camera to pc cable as a midi type sync for lsdj or maybe even send notes to it like the keyboard mod? i dont know how these things work so idk if its possible i guess that'd be my first question xD
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That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how practical it is.
Lots of other ways to do this already exist, and most of them are simple and well documented; examples include Arduinoboy and the nanoloop to MIDI adapter. You'd be able to use either of those to achieve what you're describing much more simply.
EDIT: I don't know a lot about the MadCatz Camera cable, but I'm under the impression it emulates something like a printer or scanner on a parallel port—it's not designed to use the same sort of communication protocol as MIDI equipment.
(I have a bad habit of editing my posts to add secondary points, don't I?)
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Ah yes, I did (almost) this about 10 years ago. I wrote a program that would take MIDI and output either sync or keyboard data, through either a "noicash" type cable or a PC Linker cable. If the MadCatz cable is identical to the PC Linker cable internally, this program should just work. Good luck finding a copy (I'm not sure if/where I have one any more) or getting it to work on a modern computer. (It's written in 16-bit Visual Basic 3.0 and requires an LPT port access driver, like UserPort. It may also fail just because your computer is too fast.)
http://web.archive.org/web/200503130951 … jmidi.html
However, I would recommend just getting an Arduinoboy, LSDj-MC2 or mayeb the sleek and sexy Nanoloop USB MIDI adapter: This last one doesn't support keyboard mode, however.
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Maine
this is very interesting and yes i know arduino boy is more practical this was just a silly idea i came up with 