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youngkuttz16	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 5:47 PM I just bought a Casio http://www.andysmusiconline.com/products/casio_ctk700.html i want to know how i could connect it to fruity loops it has midi in and out and i have already bought the extension for it so i can connect it to the computer by the way i know it is a shitty keyboard so please leave the sarcastic comments out ....j/k have fun
youngkuttz16	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 6:11 PM help plz
Distilled1	Date: October 25, 2006 @ 6:39 PM I havent tryed it But I was gona try to hook my sons crappy Casio up to FL and some og the other programs I have. Seems there is a driver disk with the one we have. But I am to lazy to try it .. So come on we need an answer
Opossum	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:07 AM Just an ugly cord that connects to the Yamaha and the other in the back of my tower is what I have. Plus, it's one more cord to get nice and tangled with the other ones. Sometimes I wonder how they get like that. They must twist around each other in the night when no one is watching. Just make sure the port values match (probably either 1 or 0). I don't remember installing a driver, other than what was already on the computer. Bah. That's how much I know.
Distilled1	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 8:21 AM I'll give it a try this week. youngk do you have a soundcard that excepts midi I/O ? that I think you will need
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 1:59 PM I sometimes use a Casio ctk 541 as a MIDI controller, if I want some peace and quiet and take the laptop upstairs. You need a MIDI interface - if your soundcard doesn't have one (on older computers often the joystick port was used), then get something like a MOTU Fastlane or Midisport 1x1 both of these are MIDI - USB interfaces. Then connect the MIDI out of your keyboard to the MIDI in and the USB cable from the MIDI interface to a USB port on your computer, (having installed drivers first by either using the CD supplied wuth the MIDI interface, or going onto the manufacturers website and downloading the most current driver from there). Certain soundcards, such as the Echo Mia MIDI and the various firewire/usb/pci soundcards designed for pro audio (ie. NOT soundblaster) have them. http://www.zzounds.com/item--MDOUNO http://www.zzounds.com/item--MTU2256
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: October 26, 2006 @ 2:02 PM sorry incomplete sentence, certain soundcards such as Echo Mia MIDI etc, etc, have them (MIDI interfaces) built in. Many soundcards do not have them built in. I use a MOTU Fastlane 2x2 midi USB-MIDI interface but if all you need is one midi device connection, the m-audio 1x1 is 40 bucks as opposed to 70 for the 2 ins/outs MOTU fastlane.

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