



Well, as some of you already know, I've been having problems for quite some time now with regards to being able to do SysEx backups of the kits, patterns, and songs on my TD-8. Since my current gear works too fast for the TD-8 to handle dumps into it, and I'm in no big hurry to drop $1000.00 for a Roland MC-80, I decided to do what everyone else is doing and use the PC librarian stuff (specifically, MIDI-Ox) as a temporary fix. So I bop on down to Comp USA and pick up a Cakewalk PC-to-MIDI cable and it's the standard deal: MIDI in-and-out jacks, a 15-pin male serial jack for connection to the PC's MIDI/joystick port, and a 15-pin joystick thru connector. Groovy. I'm in business. Or so I thought.....
So I get home and swing my PC's motherboard around to plug in the cable, and that's when the roof caved in. My computer is a Hewlett-Packard Brio BA410, and the two free serial ports on the back of it are 9-pin male instead of 15-pin female! There is a 15-pin connector on the Brio, but it links the monitor. Did I make a bad choice in cables? Well, every single one I've run across on the Web is 15-pin male, so that doesn't seem to be an issue. Did I make a bad choice in computers? Possibly. I had a buddy of mine check the back of his H-P Pavilion, and, sure enough, there was a 15-pin female joystick port....
So, once again, it would seem that I'm screwed (sure wish I had one of those QX-3's, feefer...). It looks like my only answer is a gender-switching 15-pin to 9-pin adapter, but so far I haven't even been able to locate a standard 15-pin to 9-pin adapter. A Web search indicates that the standard ones exist, but what about the gender-switching version?
Or maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here. Obviously I'm supposed to connect the cable to my sound card port, but the sound card I use is the Lexicon Core2, which terminates into a 25-pin breakout box from a 25-pin cable connected to the port on the installed PCI card (I use this system with Cool Edit Pro software for recording purposes). So I guess the question now becomes twofold: is this the connection I should be making, and, if so, is there such a thing as a 15-pin to 25-pin adapter?
This whole deal is really bumming me out. HELP!!! As usual, any advice would be greatly appreciated....
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