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HDE USB to MIDI Cable PC to Synthesizer Microphone Keyboard Instrument Converter Adapter for Home Music Studio

Brand: SODIAL

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Plug and Play. No driver required.
Connect your music keyboard to your pc with this cable. Instantly turn your PC into a music studio
Powered by your pc's usb port. No ac adapter required.
1 in + 1 out MIDI interface; 16 MIDI input channels & 16 MIDI output channels
LED power indicator; MIDI in & out signal indicator; Supports: Windows Vista/XP and Mac OS X

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Item Weight

0.32 ounces

Product Dimensions

3 x 1 x 2 inches

ASIN

B00D3QFHN8

Item model number

HDE-A29-NEW

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3.8 811 ratings

3.8 out of 5 stars

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

April 7, 2008

Color Name

Black

Compatible Devices

Laptop, PC

Connector Type

USB Type A

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This USB MIDI cable offers a easy and convenient solution for connecting your music keyboard to your pc. Self-powered through your pc's usb port, it turns your pc into a music studio in seconds, no extra tools required. Gives you the power to play songs on your keyboard or other controller, then mix and edit them on your home computer/laptop with any sequencing or recording software you have installed & play them back on the built-in synth or an any out-board synth!

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Connector Type	USB Type A	USB Type A	USB, USB Type C	USB Type A	USB Type A

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jstowe

Works with a little effort

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012

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I bought this for my daughter's Yamaha YPT-230. It was a good price, but with mixed reviews on whether it would work or not. After plugging it in, Windows 7 recognized it and installed the generic USB-MIDI drivers. The cable showed there was power, but I could not get any input when trying to input music in Musescore. Muserscore showed that it was connected. I downloaded and tried a few other free MIDI programs but nothing worked. I had seen a post or two about using different drivers so I did a search and found the following site:
[...]
The information here seems to apply to many of the generic USB-MIDI cables out there.

I followed the instructions and now have a functional cable that works with all of the programs I tested, including MuseScore and Synthesia.

If looking for drivers, search for EMU x Midi 1x1 cable driver. This takes you to the Creative or EMU.com websites where you can download a functional driver. There may be other drivers out there that work just as well or better, but this did the trick for me. There is a little bit of delay but for my purposes it is fine.

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Dave

cheap 'n' cheerful... ish... and watch your "latency"

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012

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I bought one of these a couple of years ago. I used it to connect my Behringer BCR2000 (in MIDI mode, naturally!) to my computer for mixing duties in REAPER. It worked with no issues and I had zero complaints.

A few weeks ago it stopped working (I had bent the USB connector and so I thought that was the culprit) so I bought another.

The replacement arrived and installed with no issues, but I'm still having trouble getting it to send MIDI data into the computer. MIDI out of the computer to the Behringer is fine. I'm not sure if this is due to the adapter or some funky Windows update that's happened lately, but it's certainly not ideal! :(

In my haste, having seen it install OK but without trying to actually use it, I discarded the packaging. Unfortunately the replacement is displaying the same symptoms as the first unit, so now it looks like I'm stuck with two possibly-broken USB / MIDI interfaces. I have reinstalled Windows, tried both with another computer, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, all kinds of good stuff and I still can't get either of them to send MIDI data into the computer. I was v-e-r-y close to throwing my Behringer unit away as I thought it was broken too!

Thankfully I tried an old Yamaha interface and it is OK. This means I just need to get and buy some MIDI cables and I'll be back in business.

So, I'd say buy one of these, and make sure it works before you throw your packaging away! When they work they're absolutely great and they're SO cheap! If you receive a lemon, return it and order another. It's worth it if you're not in a hurry. If you *are* in a hurry then order a few of them, or just get something else.

I'd also like to advise people that reports of MIDI latency with these devices is quite probably a misnomer. I strongly suspect that the speed of transferring MIDI data into your computer through this device is much faster than you think, and the actual latency you're experiencing is that of converting your MIDI data into audio. This happens inside your computer and has **nothing** to do with this device's performance; it's purely down to your hardware and software configurations. All this talk of ASIO is only really going to help you on the audio side of things. If you're using this device to record MIDI data then you should have no issues at all... as long as you get one that works! :-)

Cheers.

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J. Mueller

Its 3 bucks, just buy it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2010

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The first one I got didn't work. Emailed the company and they were very helpful, although I wish that it wouldn't have taken them so long to respond to my emails. It took a week of back and forth emailing before they sent me a new one. When the new one got here, it worked perfect. Although the communication was somewhat slow, they were very helpful through the whole process, and didn't ask me to return the old one.

Bottom line: You have nothin to lose, and it works great with no lagging whatsoever. Simply plug it in and it works. If your weary that such a cheap product won't work, don't be. Even if it happens to be broken, like mine was, they are more than happy to replace it without you having to hassle with sending the old one back, and the new one worked great for me.
For 3 bucks + shipping, you really can't go wrong.

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Ilium

Works just fine

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2011

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I received the item promptly, mt original intent was to hook up to a electronic drum module that does not have a midi port but a USB. So I wanted to try to hook it up thru the usb on the drums to have a midi out. This is not what the product is designed for so I did not have much hope of it working. Unfortunately it did not work for this purpose. However, I also have a midi keyboard which I was able to hook up to my computer thru the computer's usb port and this has worked great. When I first hooked it up it did not work, but then when I went back and looked at the instructions (which are a little piece of paper in the package) it worked just fine. There is a slight lag between the keypress and hearing the transfer onscreen but it should be able to be worked around.
Overall 4 stars.

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