I just received my first MT32 and SC7 in the mail today, and I want to try to get it hooked up to the Midiman MM401 I picked up last month. Coincidentally, I managed to get a pile of newer stuff recently which included an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card. It came with a DE9 to midi I\O cable but it also has audio jacks in the adapter as well. Is this likely to work with the midiman?

https://maxqubit.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/ … phile2496p2.jpg

As rare as these cards are, I don't want to mess it up by using a non standard cable.

Also, I've been trying to get my SC7 working via the serial port for a little while now and all I've managed to do is install a driver I found online that makes Win98SE crash when loading. I had to go to safemode and delete the driver files to fix it. I couldn't find any SC7 serial port drivers in the Vogons archives.

Ideally, I'd like to eventually have both of them connected through each other somehow (most likely not using the serial connection), then I can use whichever one sounds better for a particular game. I don't know how to do this though. Strangely, the MT32's manual doesn't really explain what midi IN, OUT and THRU are for specifically, or how best to use multiple modules together.

EDIT: I just found this thread:
MIDIMAN MM-401 breakout cable

And according to the helpful pictures posted, the IN and OUT pins are the same on my M-Audio cable, except that the top center pin doesn't go to anything at all. It doesn't go to the casing or any of the pins on the DE9 connector. Not sure if this would be a problem or not. It doesn't seem like it would be if its intended to be used this way on a newer card, but I don't know...