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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: music keyboard for Amiga ?
Keywords: MIDI,synthesizer,keyboard,music
Message-ID: <742@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:18:02 GMT
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Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <8747@star.cs.vu.nl> mlknol@cs.vu.nl (Knol Marcel L) writes:
> 
>	I have an Amiga B2000 and I want to use my Amiga as synthesizer,
>but I don't want to destroy my Amiga keyboard. Is there a possibility to 
>connect a simple music keyboard to the Amiga, using MIDI  (where can one
>use MIDI for?), serial or parallel port? I don't mean a little keyboard, 
>but a full-sized keyboard.
>	I don't  want to  buy an expensive  synthesizer.  I just want to
>learn to play some tunes.  By the way, I don't even know if there exists
>software to use such a keyboard. Can someone help me, any information is 
>welcome. Please send e-mail.

Far away from being a MIDI expert, I still can assure you:
yes, this is possible with the Amiga.

There are available rather cheap MIDI keyboards on the market
that are just keyboards to output the codes of the pressed keys
but don't produce any sound on their own. They are used to control
numerous other MIDI equipment which in turn normally doesn't come
with an own keyboard.

The second component you need is a MIDI interface for the Amiga
that plugs to the serial port. They are very cheap.

The last component you need is a MIDI capable music software.
But you can't use any MIDI software, you need one that is able
to generate sounds using the Amiga audio hardwre according to
the MIDI codes input. (Some of
the MIDI software packages rely on a connected synthesizer that
does the final sound generation.) I'm not very well informed here,
can it be that SONIX and Bars&Pipes are adequate here?

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