Since the 1980s, MIDI has been a great way to send data between electronic musical instruments. Beginning as a modified serial interface running through optoisolaters and DIN sockets, these days, your ...

This Design Idea uses the FT232BM from Future Technology Devices International, a USB-to-UART interface IC that you need not program, to interface a USB port to the MIDI ...

In 1981, an audio engineer named Dave Smith designed a universal interface for connecting synthesizers together. He presented his basic design at the Audio Engineering Society meeting that year, and ...

M-Audio is adding a new member to their line of MIDIsport USB MIDI interfaces: the MIDIsport 2×4. It’s a compact, multi-port, bus-powered MIDI interface for USB-equipped Macs and PCs. Due later this ...

Diddy synth specialist MeeBlip has come up with a simple but potentially useful utility box in the form of the cubit. This is a 4-port MIDI splitter: all MIDI messages received at the single MIDI ...

Do people actually use them? If someone is actually using MIDI, I doubt that they'd be using a consumer-level card, and since you can use a USB joystick, it seems like a waste to use that space for a ...