Pete
i30 to PC connection
Mon May 14 02:24:13 2001


Hello Andrei and warm greetings,

There are three ways in which you 
can connect your i30 to a PC:-

1. Joystick Port on the PC (Not advisable 
on WINDOWS NT or older PCs)
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You must have a sound card in your PC 
with a standard joystick port.
You will need to purchase a "Y" cable 
which plugs into your jostick port on the 
PC and has 2 MIDI connectors (IN 
OUT) which connect to your i30. You 
can use the sound card software (drivers) 
already installed on your PC - just select 
the sound card's MIDI settings to use the 
i30 instead of the sound card (Multimedia 
options in "Control Panel") or if you are 
using a sequencer software package, 
the MIDI driver options to the sound card 
MIDI for IN and OUT.

2. PC MIDI interface card
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You need to buy a MIDI card and insert it 
into your PC - WINDOWS should detect 
it OK but just in case check to see if the 
card includes the necessary software drivers 
which may need to be installed. Once installed, 
you simply need standard MIDI cables to 
connect from the MIDI card to the i30 (often 
the MIDI cards come with an external adapter 
box which has the MIDI IN, OUT and THRU 
sockets in it). In your sequencer software, you 
simply select the MIDI card as the MIDI IN & 
OUT device.

3. i30 to PC interface cable
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This is a standard serial to mini-din cable 
which connect directly in the back of the 
i30 to the PC's serial port. This single cable 
acts for both MIDI IN and OUT. The cable
 is a standard cable and usually obtained from 
most music stores (it is not Korg-specific). 
You need to install the Korg PC interface 
driver on your PC - this driver is free and 
can be downloaded from this 
site (Ralphs pages - see at bottom of 
this web page). Instructions on how 
to set up and install the driver is in the 
Korg i30 manual.
Once installed and connected, you simply 
select the PC interface driver as your 
MIDI IN and OUT in the sequencer 
software package.

Hope this helps

Pete