Hi All
I'm hoping to take a few first steps into midi music on my PC. 
With this in mind, I bought a cheap Commodore MK-10 midi keyboard
(ebay!)

Other kit is a Win XP Box with a Turtle Beach soundcard.
Now I can get the PC to generate some midi notes using some downloaded
s/w called Virtual Midi Keyboard (which makes the computer keyboard
into a musical keyboard) - but I can't seem to get the Commodore
keyboard to make any sounds through the PC.

It's connected to the Turtle Beach's games port - do I need a driver
for the keyboard (a disk was supplied but it seems to be for Win9x
only)....

Sorry to ask such a basic question - but I'm a beginner to this !

Thanks
Adrian
Suffolk UK 
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Wasn't this an amiga accessory? I did a brief search but all the pages
I found were in German. I'm guessing by the photos.

Of course, if you have actually managed to plug it into a game port, it
must not be strictly for Amiga. What did you use, a MIDI cable?

And what software are you running? Tell us more...

Hi Sticky
On 17 Oct 2005 05:34:17 -0700, "stickyfox@gmail.com"
<stickyfox@gmail.com> wrote:

>Wasn't this an amiga accessory? I did a brief search but all the pages
>I found were in German. I'm guessing by the photos.
>
>Of course, if you have actually managed to plug it into a game port, it
>must not be strictly for Amiga. What did you use, a MIDI cable?
>
>And what software are you running? Tell us more...

Have learnt some more since I posted the original message <g>

Don't know if the keyboard was destined for the Amiga - think it was
always aimed at the PC (judging by the brief write-up on the box).

The supplied software (called Key West - by Evolution) will load and
run on my wife's win98 box - but not on my winXP pc.

The connection between the keyboard and the PC is via a standard
din-to-gameport cable.

So.....
It seems that the midi keyboard will work OK with the supplied
software under win98 - the questions is 'what do I need to make it fly
with winXP ??'

Many thanks
Adrian
Suffolk UK 

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Hi,


> So.....
> It seems that the midi keyboard will work OK with the supplied
> software under win98 - the questions is 'what do I need to make it fly
> with winXP ??'

When the Commodore keyboard works on an other computer, it  m u s t
work on your XP computer.
The midi keyboard must  n o t  have any driver software,
The driver software is here:
a. motherboard (game connector)
or
b. soundcard (game connector)
if this right installed, your keyborad works with your pc

regards
Norbert

HI Norbert
Thanks for your reply

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:58:40 +0200, "Norbert Stellberg"
<Stellberg@Stellberg.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>> So.....
>> It seems that the midi keyboard will work OK with the supplied
>> software under win98 - the questions is 'what do I need to make it fly
>> with winXP ??'
>
>When the Commodore keyboard works on an other computer, it  m u s t
>work on your XP computer.

That's what I thought !

>The midi keyboard must  n o t  have any driver software,
>The driver software is here:
>a. motherboard (game connector)
>or
>b. soundcard (game connector)

I'm using a separate soundcard (Santa Cruz) which shows up in My
Computer (properties : hardware) as having a WDM interface and a Game
Port interface - is this all that I should need ?

>if this right installed, your keyborad works with your pc

That's what I thought......
any ideas on troublsehooting the setup ?
Thanks
Adrian
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