Hello,

I just got in my first hardware synth (Virus b) and I am having troubles getting my sequencer to trigger the Virus (get sounds out of it). I have been able to connect my midi keyboard to my soundblaster and not have any problems.

The cable I am using to connect my soundblaster to the Virus is a cable that has two ports on either end. On one end there is a female and male port, one of which connects to the soundblaster joystick/midi port. On the other end of the cable are two regular midi plugs, one marked in and one marked out. I have tried pluging in both to the Virus but I assume the one marked IN should be the correct plug going into the Virus.

I have used this same cable to attach the midi keyboard to the soundblaster but have used the OUT midi port and havent had any problems.

Is the joystick/midi port on the soundblaster capable of both receiving and sending midi signals?

I have Cubase 5.1 and Cakewalk 9.03 and cant get either of them to work. I believe I set my properties correctly in both applications setting the midi channel to 1 and also 1 on my synth. When I press a key in cakewalk the little midi icon in my system tray in the lower right corner of my screen shows that a midi out signal has been pressed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Peter

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If you have a SoundBlaster card with a MIDI cable that plugs into the sound card's joystick port, you would connect the cable labeled "IN" to the "MIDI OUT" port on the Virus. Connect the cable labeled "OUT" to the "MIDI IN" port on the Virus.

got it?

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thanks that worked!

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Saturday October 6, 2001 - Tiesto @ The Kool Haus in Toronto, Canada (Simply Incredible)

Armin @ State in Toronto, Canada (Can it get any better?)

Friday April 26, 2002 - Jon 00 Flemming @ System in Toronto, Canada (It was over too fast =[)

a lot of people get that wrong...it's not so hard if you know how it works.....something that says "out" sends data, something that says "in" receives data. So if you connect an out to an out you get two senders against each other and nothing happens.

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Hey Synergy what do you think of the virus b??? Im really thinking hard about getting this as my next synth. Is it good for those uplifting trance noises????

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