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SiriusHardware · 31st Aug 2022, 10:26 pm

Hours later... I didn't find the cable I was actually looking for but I found a home brewed exact equivalent which I had originally made to plug directly into the IDC 'game' port connector on an old PC motherboard. The interface has an optocoupler for MIDI input and an open collector transistor driven MIDI output preceded by an inverting buffer. The input side is not needed, for the moment at least.

I've rigged it up to a spare MK14 edge connector so it will be ready to plug and go, but it has taken so long to get that far I have run out of time. Will have another go at it tomorrow.

31st Aug 2022, 10:26 pm	#14
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,586	Re: MK14 and MIDI Hours later... I didn't find the cable I was actually looking for but I found a home brewed exact equivalent which I had originally made to plug directly into the IDC 'game' port connector on an old PC motherboard. The interface has an optocoupler for MIDI input and an open collector transistor driven MIDI output preceded by an inverting buffer. The input side is not needed, for the moment at least. I've rigged it up to a spare MK14 edge connector so it will be ready to plug and go, but it has taken so long to get that far I have run out of time. Will have another go at it tomorrow.