Disklavier

Greetings disklavier,

I have not had very good luck with Midisport interfaces and old
computers. Their drivers and support are pretty bad. Fine for the
latest machines but not much else. Roland makes a USB interface that
is cheaper and has worked with no problems on every machine I have
used it with. Just plugs and plays the way it should.

Can you run win 98 on a 486?  If not, it is unlikely that any USB
devices can be made to work without a huge effort.

You can also use a PC card adapter. They make them for game and
joystick use and have MIDI thrown in. I bought some generic thing on
E-Bay for about $15 that works just fine on an old notebook, P266
running Win 98 SE.

The Win 98 Media Player is just about the only piece of really good
software by microsoft. This or any other program that uses the
direct-x multimedia interface will play MIDI perfectly even with other
tasks running. Without this you would have to make sure that the
computer was running only the MIDI program or the music might be
erratic.

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Best regards,
Spencer Chase
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