So youve heard about MIDI and are eager to set up your own MIDI home studio? Actually you can do that for a few hundred dollars assuming you already own a decent computer. Actually a home studio can cost a LOT more than that, but a few hundred dollars should take care of the basics for you. But be warned, if you catch MIDI fever as so many have, youre likely going to be spending a LOT more money, even to the point selling your refrigerator (or your kidney) to get money to buy more MIDI equipment!
In order to set up your MIDI home studio, youre going to need hardware that allows MIDI input and output in other words, hardware that facilitates the transfer of MIDI data to and from a computer and a MIDI Interface or some similar MIDI unit. You can recognize such a unit by the MIDI IN and MIDI OUT jacks, which will be labeled as such on the outside of the unit itself. Some of these interfaces are barely external at all theyre nothing more than cards that you plug into your computer. Others are little boxes attach to your computers USB port or elsewhere. Remember that this piece of hardware is an interface, not a sound module. If you want your studio to be able to play...