RS-232 CABLE

[Gyn_Paul]

I'm trying to connect my midi keyboard to my PC.  To that end I've

acquired a proper midi-PC cable, which terminates - at the PC end - in

a  pair of 15-pin plugs, 1 of each gender.

Imagine, if you will, my horror/dismay/consternation (fill in your own

suitable word here), when I rummage round the back of the PC and

discover that the only serial connection on the back is a 9-pin RS-232.

I've looked on the web for Serial PCI cards but they all connect with

9-pin sockets, and 15-9pin adaptors appear not to exist any more.

Question:

• Is the 15-pin actually an RS-232 standard (i.e. am I searching for the wrong thing)?

• Any other ideas how to connect my midi cable?

The annoying thing is I know that, buried under 4 van-loads of

furniture in the barn, is an old PC which I'm sure has a serial pci

card with both 9 and 15 pin sockets on it, but it's just too

inaccessible to retrieve.

p

[Pierre ZFP]

RS232 is 9-pin.

Have a look here  http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/

they have everything to everything cables.  Good prices and postage and very good quality/service.  I've used them a lot

[tel]

Hi,

AFIK all standard sound card midi/gameport connectors are 15 pin.  Not to teach my Grandmother etc.etc. are you sure you are looking inthe right place?, does your P.C. have onboard sound and if so the midi/gameport is grouped with all the other connectors.  If the soundcard is P.C.I. then there should be the standard 3 or 4 mini jack sockets (blue/pink/green/black) plus the 15pin midi/gameport socket.

 

Regards

 

 

[sid]

...or here for midi to USB perhaps?

http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&id=ID2168073&partno=70825&search=MIDI&rsite=google.co.uksea&rcode=

Regards

 Sid

[Gyn_Paul]

[quote user="tel"]

Hi,

AFIK all standard sound card midi/gameport connectors are 15

pin.  Not to teach my Grandmother etc.etc. are you sure you are

looking inthe right place?, does your P.C. have onboard sound and if so

the midi/gameport is grouped with all the other connectors.  If

the soundcard is P.C.I. then there should be the standard 3 or 4 mini

jack sockets (blue/pink/green/black) plus the 15pin midi/gameport

socket.

 

Regards

 

 

[/quote]

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

crammed onto the back panel are a vast array of mini jacks for every

concievable option of sound, half a dozen USB's, some SPDIF's, a DVI

socket, a couple of RCA's, a scart socket, even a printer parallel

port, but just the one little d-type 9-pin, and not a flat twin 15-pin

to be seen.

And the only 9 - 15 adaptor on the site mentioned above is for a 3x5 socket rather than for a 7+8-type.

Seems I shall have to contain myself until I can go to the other house and cannibalize (sp) the elderly pc there.

p