Hello, I am completely new to PC recording. I have Sonar & Fruity
Loops and want to use my old Ensoniq SQ1 (Midi 1.0) to control. I am
planning to buy the new PCMCIA EMU 1616 interfase for the Midi input
and also to record my electric guitar, but before spending the $ I
want to make sure this old Ensoniq baby will work. I appreciate your
help.

Should be able to make it work if you have a pcmcia port on your
computer for the interface to plug into.   Try loading and playing
midi files first,, and after you have that working then go after
recording.  Roland makes a midi guitar device called gr-33, that can
convert your guitar to put out midi signals.  You have to attach a
midi pickup to the guitar, if its not already a midi guitar.  Will
also work on steel string acoustic guitars.


PCMCIA is mostly used on some laptops, and usually is not present as a
port on desktop pc computers.


On Feb 15, 6:26 pm, "The Rockman" <CristianVe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I am completely new to PC recording. I have Sonar & Fruity
> Loops and want to use my old Ensoniq SQ1 (Midi 1.0) to control. I am
> planning to buy the new PCMCIA EMU 1616 interfase for the Midi input
> and also to record my electric guitar, but before spending the $ I
> want to make sure this old Ensoniq baby will work. I appreciate your
> help.


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You can donwload Anvil Studio or Jazz for free  Try playing midi files
first, to make sure you have sound levels set/ nothing muted etc in
mixer, then go after recording input.

On pc you need to set what midi ports will be allowed  usually in a
place in the program called options, or midi options, but in anvil,
its in view menu.

On 15 Feb 2007 18:26:44 -0800, "The Rockman" <CristianVeraJ@gmail.com>
wrote stuff
and I replied:

AFAIK MIDI is still MIDI, although they are muttering about extending
it.

However,. have you tried the keyboard with a PC MIDI setup, or a
modern keyboard? If so, then if it worked all should be OK. Otherwise,
ask EMU (Creative last time I looked) about what they think.

>Hello, I am completely new to PC recording. I have Sonar & Fruity
>Loops and want to use my old Ensoniq SQ1 (Midi 1.0) to control. I am
>planning to buy the new PCMCIA EMU 1616 interfase for the Midi input
>and also to record my electric guitar, but before spending the $ I
>want to make sure this old Ensoniq baby will work. I appreciate your
>help.