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Soundblaster joystick port midi help please

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First post, by Z-Beeblebrox

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Hi Vogons,
I was over in the dos guide getting some good advice from members, and was redirected here .

Does anyone know how to get the joystick port to transmit midi ?
I need it to work in conjunction with my dos sequencer, voyetra sequencer plus gold.

Ive a dos setup on a 1999/2000 dell Gl1
With a sb16 isa card - ct2980.

It does work, the diagnose.exe works,
8bit samples, 16 bit samples and fm synth all work.

The autoexec.bat may be the problem ,

Has anyone got this to work ?

Many thanks ..

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Reply 2 of 4, by Z-Beeblebrox

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Thanks for the advice dr_st .
Ive run ctcm and it sets the irq and base address,
Does it do any thing else ? Or can i rem it out, leaving the set blaster line ?

The reason i ask is, the ctcm sets an irq (11) that is incompatible with the sequencer, which looks for irq 5

Btw ive added a line to the autoexecbat which loads sbmidi.exe

Reply 3 of 4, by dr_st

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It's a PnP card as far as I could check. You need CTCM to initialize it. If am wrong, and it's not PnP, scratch everything I said.

On a PnP card you only need to run CTCU once, to assign the resources of your choice. Then you use CTCM to initialize it upon boot.

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