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MIDI out, used in pc?

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First post, by yokmismo

Posted on 2013-10-19, 15:39

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After buying a roland mt-32, i got a Roland SC-55MKII to complete the midi team (mt-32 & GM).

The problem is that, on one game if i connect the Midi out & midi in to the PC and to the sc-55, the digital voices get corrupted and continously cut off, this is strange because with the roland mt-32 the voices are ok...

Finally i found that if i disconnect the midi out on the sc-55, the digital voices suddenly are reproduced well!!, and the midi continues playing well too.

my questions are... ¿is necessary to plug the midi out on the roland and the pc for gaming or not?, ¿perhaps the SC-55MKII has the midi out failing?.

My soundcard is a SB16 (tried with 2 different)

Thanks in advance
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Reply 1 of 3, by d1stortion

Posted on 2013-10-19, 15:56

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You absolutely do not need MIDI Out for gaming.

Reply 2 of 3, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2013-10-20, 00:33

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yokmismo wrote:

my questions are... ¿is necessary to plug the midi out on the roland and the pc for gaming or not?

No 😀

What many do is connect the MIDI OUT from the SB to the MIDI IN of the MT-32. Then from the MIDI-THRU of the MT-32 into the MIDI-IN of the Sound Canvas.

If both devices are power on, both will play and you just use cables or a mixer to choose which one you want to listen to.

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Reply 3 of 3, by NewRisingSun

Posted on 2013-10-20, 17:44

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For IBM PC games, connecting a sound module's MIDI out is never necessary. As both the SCC-1 and LAPC-I sound cards never send out any data, even upon request, no General-MIDI- or MT-32-supporting game would have made it necessary to be able to receive data from the GS or LA sound source.

X68000 games are a different story: several Konami games insist on using the handshake transfer procedure when sending data to the MT-32, which requires bidirectional connection, and will fail otherwise.

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