Chris Long
New member
Hello All
To start, here are my specs:
SoundBlaster Live! Value card
Celeron 400, 416 MB system memory
I have purchased a MIDI keyboard (a noname thing made in Italy for Baldwin Piano and Organ) It was originally intended to be part of a computer-aided music instruction set-up, like a piano lab at schools. They must have discontinued the line or something, because there is no info anywhere about it. It's brand new, but came with no booklet...grrrr. It has a single onboard sound--a piano sound that is actually quite good. It has MIDI In, Out, and Thru jacks as well as Sustain and line out/in (headphones, too, as well as a jack labeled "CC-24". I can't for the life of me get it to make any sounds through my synth on my sound card! I have a Y cable hooked up to my joystick port, coming from In and Out, and nothing is going on.
What am I missing? Is there some way that I have to prepare my PC to recognize this keyboard?
On the top panel, it has these switches--
Volume slider
Piano On/Off
MIDI Channel Select(one each for In and Out)
The first 16 keys in the bass are discreetly labeled Midi, and numbered 1 through 16.
Any guesses as to what I need to be doing to make it work through my PC? I expected to be able to plug it into the soundcard and use all those cool sounds in there--the ones I can access through that stupid Creative Keyboard thing...it's never easy, is it?
I owe you people big time in advance...
Chris
To start, here are my specs:
SoundBlaster Live! Value card
Celeron 400, 416 MB system memory
I have purchased a MIDI keyboard (a noname thing made in Italy for Baldwin Piano and Organ) It was originally intended to be part of a computer-aided music instruction set-up, like a piano lab at schools. They must have discontinued the line or something, because there is no info anywhere about it. It's brand new, but came with no booklet...grrrr. It has a single onboard sound--a piano sound that is actually quite good. It has MIDI In, Out, and Thru jacks as well as Sustain and line out/in (headphones, too, as well as a jack labeled "CC-24". I can't for the life of me get it to make any sounds through my synth on my sound card! I have a Y cable hooked up to my joystick port, coming from In and Out, and nothing is going on.
What am I missing? Is there some way that I have to prepare my PC to recognize this keyboard?
On the top panel, it has these switches--
Volume slider
Piano On/Off
MIDI Channel Select(one each for In and Out)
The first 16 keys in the bass are discreetly labeled Midi, and numbered 1 through 16.
Any guesses as to what I need to be doing to make it work through my PC? I expected to be able to plug it into the soundcard and use all those cool sounds in there--the ones I can access through that stupid Creative Keyboard thing...it's never easy, is it?
I owe you people big time in advance...
Chris