Is anyone producing new MIDI cables for Atari ST's?

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Is anyone producing new MIDI cables for Atari ST's?

[MasterMotorola]

Lots of companies are producing new stock and pretty much any music store you walk into sells standard MIDI cables as well as MIDI-to-USB cables.  I bought some extra MIDI cables for my "new" secondary keyboard last year on Amazon (a friend returned my Yamaha keyboard he borrowed 25 years ago).

[Cubeast]

2 hours ago, MasterMotorola said:

Lots of companies are producing new stock and pretty much any music store you walk into sells standard MIDI cables as well as MIDI-to-USB cables.  I bought some extra MIDI cables for my "new" secondary keyboard last year on Amazon (a friend returned my Yamaha keyboard he borrowed 25 years ago).

Most of what is being sold as MIDI cables these days have all 5 pins wired unlike say an old cable from Roland which will only have the 3 pins wired. The reason why you might not want to use a cable with all 5 pins wired is because Atari combined MIDI Thru with the MIDI Out socket and that could potentially cause problems with instruments that also use non-standard wiring.

 

Now ideally what you actually want connected to the MIDI Out port of your Atari is a special Y cable or adaptor which gives you both the Out and the Thru which will knock off about 2ms of latency in comparison to monitoring via soft thru via the out port.    

[+dhe]

What I would like to do is hook up a mt-32 pi - looks like depending on the "hat" - they either take a USB cable or a five pin DIN connector.

 

Since I just bought an Atari a could of weeks ago (1040SF) - I'm new to the market, so if you could show me where and what to buy, I would appreciate it.

 

Thanks!

[ggn]

For the mt32-pi have a look at this page: https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/USB-MIDI-interfaces. Basically if you buy one of those usb->midi cables then you don't need a hat at all because you can just plug it to the raspberry pi directly.

 

Otherwise if you already ordered a mt32-pi hat then you just buy 2 bog standard midi cables like https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-MIDI-Cable-Connector-Molded/dp/B009GUP7U8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=midi+cable&qid=1668518587&sr=8-2 and you're good to go.

 

[Cubeast]

For that I would assume any commonly available 5 pin din cable will do the trick.

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46 minutes ago, ggn said:

For the mt32-pi have a look at this page: https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/USB-MIDI-interfaces. Basically if you buy one of those usb->midi cables then you don't need a hat at all because you can just plug it to the raspberry pi directly.

Definitely heed that pages warning about those cheap Chinese USB/MIDI cables!   I have a couple of that exact one and it basically corrupts everything (can't even play a song without the music going out of sync)