Midi cable problem

[Cal D]

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum sound card. The front plate of the sound card has two inpouts called Midi In and Midi Out.

So silly me figures I would buy two midi cables and run the cables from my keyboard out to the soundcard midi in and the keyboard's midi in to the soundcard's midi out.

Problem is, the midi cables fit into my keybaord's midi ports but they do not fit into my sound card's midi ports. The sound card has the round ports with the pins, but the round port is smaller than the midi cable end.

If this helps, the sound card has midi DIN labelled on the front plate.

How can i get my keyboard to connect to my sound card if the sound card ports are two small for standard midi cables?

Someone also mentioned that perhaps i should be using my joystick/midi port instead. Now I'm really confused:

Questions

1) How come my midi cables do not fit my sound card midi DIN ports? Do i need an adapter or something?

2) It is beter to use the ports referenced above or should i be using the joystick/midi port? If so, what does the cable look like.

Inituitively, it seems that using the midi ports in the front of the sound card makes better sense- after all, why would they make spoecific midi in and out ports that sit in front of the card's plate? Problerm is, can't connct the cables.

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[brzilian]

You need this:

http://www.americas.creative.com/products/product.asp?product=78&category=239&maincategory=

The joystick port adaper looks like this:

http://www.americas.creative.com/products/product.asp?product=77&category=239&maincategory=

Like always, Creative doesn't know their market and makes stupid design decisions like this. If they didn't put real MIDI ports on the front plate, why bother? This solution has no advantage over the joystic to MIDI port adapter.

This is exactly why I use an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 and MIDISport USB 2x2 MIDI interface instead...

 

[cazisrael]

your awnser my friend

i have the exact same sound card and it comes with adapters to hook the regular midi cables up to it...they must have left yours out..or they are still in the box...i thought the same thing..how is this gonna fit...ah yes the adapters lye in the box......