It is unsupported by older Windows OS and would not work with a vintage computer OS, even if you could physically connect it, which you cannot, as far as I can tell. It is meant to be connected to smartphones, tablets, and modern computers, with a USB cable or a wireless interface.

Thanks, RetroGamer4Ever. It's good to know. I was also looking at MIDI keyboards recently. And at the first glance all of them have only USB connector. I'm not sure if any of modern inexpensive keyboards have a classic 5 din connector. Are there any? Or I should find an old used one?

The pro models occasionally still have the OG MIDI interface, but consumer models almost always don't. Anything with a USB port MUST have a driver for whatever vintage OS you are using, so they are generally a bad buy for that, unless they have the regular MIDI interface. What you should do is scour thrift stores, auction sites, consignment, etc. for older consumer/pro keyboards that are of the early 2000's vintage that would have the USB and MIDI ports, so you can get GS/XG/GM2 hardware that you can connect to a vintage computer. Once you identify a unit that could be suitable, dig up the user manual and support information for it to see if it would work for your particular uses. As far as OS support goes, XP is the best supported vintage OS, cause that's the OS where people were using USB and MIDI interfaces, along with the MIDI software often used in Windows 98.

Bondi wrote on 2022-06-20, 14:34:

Thanks, RetroGamer4Ever. It's good to know. I was also looking at MIDI keyboards recently. And at the first glance all of them have only USB connector. I'm not sure if any of modern inexpensive keyboards have a classic 5 din connector. Are there any? Or I should find an old used one?

Your best bet for inexpensive MIDI controllers is to shop used. Another option is also to look at used synthesizers, since those can also double as a MIDI keyboard if they have a MIDI out. Even some of the old Yamaha and Casio "toy" keyboards had MIDI ports.

There are modern MIDI keyboards with DIN-5 MIDI from companies like Akia, Arturia and Novation. But those typically are in the hundreds of dollars.

RetroGamer4Ever, Shponglefan, thank you for the info!

This really sucks i was hoping to get it working in win 3.11
also play dos games out through the GM drivers

There are USB host to DIN converters:

https://www.serdashop.com/USBMIDIHost

https://www.amazon.com.au/CAMOLA-MIDI-Host-In … r/dp/B08MZY59B7

Pierre32 wrote on 2022-06-21, 01:00:

There are USB host to DIN converters:

https://www.serdashop.com/USBMIDIHost

https://www.amazon.com.au/CAMOLA-MIDI-Host-In … r/dp/B08MZY59B7

I was about to write that as well.

Additionally, repurposing an older USB equipped PC or even a Raspberry PI as a USB host to which one connects both the keyboard over USB and USB to standard MIDI interface would allow creating a DIY host with USB to MIDI (DIN) using software (like loopMIDI under Windows or JACK under Linux ).

EDIT :

The Serdashop adapter linked will only allow the use of the USB keyboard as a controller. It will not allow the use of the USB equipped keyboard as a MIDI synth, as this adapter does not have a DIN MIDI in . The one on Amazon allows both MIDI in and out over classical (DIN) MIDI, but is quit expensive, IMHO. Consequently, repurposing an older USB capable PC (laptop, netbook, etc) that one already owns as a DIY host would probably make sense .