RS 232 to midi interface

Testing/Troubleshooting
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Hi,

I was looking for a serial to midi interface, and I built one based on the midimerger using pic16f877-20 and a MAX232 chip. The unit itself is working, I also downloaded the Yamaha driver. But how to get the interface working via the serial port (using com port 2). Thanks

Best regards

Shum

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Hi Shum,

so far I remember, after the installation of the yamaha driver, there should be a new icon in the system setup directory (where you also setup the display, the soundcard, the network, etc…) - click on this icon, and you should be able to select the COM port.

Regardless of the selected COM port, MIOS Studio and MIDI-Ox should already list a new MIDI interface, do you see it?

Best Regards, Thorsten.

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Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for the infromation.

Best regards

Shum

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Hi Thorsten,

Since the Yamaha driver is only Win 3.1 compatible, could not get it to work on winxp. I used another serial driver meant for win98/Xp and it works. The midi merger-RS232 combination makes a good serial to midi interface. The unit that I built can be used as a midi merger as well as a serial midi interface. Thanks again

Best regards

Shum