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From: bob@ultra.com (Bob Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Sound Blaster MIDI box
Summary: Sound Blaster MIDI box
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.214030.2252@ultra.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 21:40:30 GMT
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Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
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I just bought a sound blaster card and discovered that I must now buy
a seprate box ($75) to connect up my MIDI keyboard. I looked at the
wiring of the joystick port included on the board and found MIDI
TxD and RxD lines. Does anyone know if I can just connect these lines
up to my MIDI keyboard (adding the appropriate connectors of course).
Asked another way, Is there anything in the MIDI box except for some
connectors? 

Also, I am interested in doing some programming of the board itself.
Creative Labs sells a "development kit" for ~ $100. Are there public
domain definitions of how the board works and/or software?
Alternatively someplace where I can buy the dev kit for less than
$100. thanks

bob beach
ultra network technologies
bob@ultra.com