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Hi Peter, 

for sure, because you're putting your questions in the Atari group, 
you're getting many Atari related answers. (And that's not so bad.)

But if for the time being your main interest is simply to dump & 
exchange TX81Z data, then some Windows applications can do this 
simple task without requiring you to going into the Atari world. 

For the PC there is a small application called MIDI-OX with which you 
can receive, store, send MIDI data & SysEx dumps. That's a great 
little tool for this and many other tasks. 
http://www.midiox.com/

Later, once your MIDI setup gets more complex you might need 
"MIDI Yoke" to do routings for the MIDI data. (Also if you're going 
to use the Atari emulator STEEM.) You'll find that on the same 
website. 

But first you'll need to get your hardware connection together. 

Little story by the way:
When I did the first MIDI setup for my PC it was a lot of work and 
took me a long time. Also because I tried to just solder my MIDI 
interface cable for the game port of my soundcard. I got all the 
pinout infos from the www and soldered it perfectly together and 
nothing worked. Until I gave up and finally bought the cable. Then I 
found out what was nowhere mentioned: in this adapter cable there 
were optocouplers built in. Without these - no way. That's the tough 
way of learning things. 

:^) Greg



--- In atari-midi-archives@yahoogroups.com, "lombardpeter" 
<lombardpeter@e...> wrote:
> -
> Greg:
> Thanks for your help.
> Windows 98 on my laptop.
> windows2000xp on my home computer.
> 
> Regards
> lombardpeter
> 
> 
> -- In atari-midi-archives@yahoogroups.com, "gregor_malecha" 
> <gregor.malecha@t...> wrote:
> > Hi Peter, 
> > 
> > after Mark has now explained the hardware side I want to add:
> > 
> > If you're using PC & STEEM your PC's soundcard might have already 
a 
> > MIDI interface in the joystick port. With the appropriate 
> > cable/adapter you can go MIDI there. 
> > 
> > It would be easier for us to answer you if we knew what kind of 
> > computer & software you're using.
> > 
> > Concerning the software side, assuming you do it the Atari (or 
> STEEM) 
> > way, the software I could recommend is GenPatch ST. It has 
already 
> > configurations set up for the TX81Z. 
> > 
> > You can download it from Tim's website via
> > http://tamw.atari-users.net/codehead.htm
> > 
> > :^) Greg