First post, by ilsensine
Hello friends. Very nice site. Have been lurking a while.
Just built a retro PC a bit like what I had back in the early 90s. Except now with midi. So I did a 486 66 VLB with an SB Pro 2 and a Speedstar VLB because that's what I remember having.
Dos 6.22 only. No windows, no CDROM.
For midi, I got a Soundscape S-2000 and a CM64 running off the game port. Everything works great, so I'm hesitant to mess with it, except...
I kind of want to replace the Soundscape with the SCC-1. As I understand it, this will get me general midi, where supported, and also intelligent midi with the CM64. But will this work without swapping things every time? Because right now the CM64 is running into the line in on the SB Pro. But if I do the same with the SCC-1, and I select general midi, will it also "go through" the CM64 (even though I presume it's the SC55 in the card doing the work) or will I need a different Y adapter to go from the two ports on the SCC-1 to the line in on the SB Pro, and swap between them (as in, which one is going into the line in on the SB at any given time) based on whether it's using Mt32 or CM64?
Forgive me if I've said something dumb--I haven't fooled around with ISA cards since they were new, and never was able to afford midi back in the day.
Thanks!