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Roland SC-7 serial midi

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First post, by CornBrown

Posted on 2018-07-13, 09:17

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Anyone up to date with a good method for playing midi files in windows 7 w/ a serial to midi driver?

I know that selecting a default midi device has been removed from win 7 but i'm having a hard time even finding a good serial to midi driver.

I'm not really looking for "possible solutions" to try but if you've used a hardware synth to play midi's over serial, i'm all ears.

Reply 1 of 6, by Spikey

Posted on 2018-07-15, 07:30

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Even in XP I always had annoying issues trying to get drivers set up, or things working the way they should. Both with Roland and Yamaha synths. Always went back to regular MIDI cables.

Reply 2 of 6, by matze79

Posted on 2018-07-15, 14:44

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Roland Serial Out Driver should work fine.

Do you use real Serialport or a USB Cable ?

Reply 3 of 6, by Kamerat

Posted on 2018-07-15, 16:38

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Hairless MIDI<->Serial Bridge + loopMIDI

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Reply 4 of 6, by matze79

Posted on 2018-07-16, 13:12

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If you have a real SC-7 you just need a serial cable for it. And maybe a RS232 USB Cable.

https://github.com/bjt42/softmpu/wiki/Serial- … I-Cable-Pinouts

And the Roland Website lists Serial Out Driver, this is official Roland Driver.

Reply 5 of 6, by CornBrown

Posted on 2018-07-21, 22:51

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Kamerat- this works great thanks!

Reply 6 of 6, by Kamerat

Posted on 2018-07-23, 13:16

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Nice to hear it works, think I only used this combination in reverse, as MIDI serial port input to my PC.

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