My yearlong hackfest project: Apple //c MIDI + homebrew software

Vulcan with 7 cards
Vulcan with 7 cards
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Hello all,

After some research I can’t find a good MIDI interface solution for the Apple //c.  If any of you find some please post links here. However, the components to make a homebrew solution with custom software exist, but there are challenges to make it work.  The first one I found out when I cut the extension off a Soundblaster MIDI interface cable and found that the pinout was not what I expected.

Here is a page that shows how most pins are unused, despite the cable containing many wires:

https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/cables/audio_video/midi-soundcard-keyboard/

More to come…