I am curious. Did you play bass before you started Midi or the other way around? It would be interesting to find someone who got interested in Midi before playing an instrument unless they were already a programmer and assigned that type of job.

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As oubla said above, the USB midi should work fine. Get that setup before you run BIAB.
Then when you run BIAB for the first time, you will get a window for setting up the midi input and output devices. You don't need a connection to a 5 pin midi device at all at that point. Just need the USB midi plugged in to the PC. The USB midi adaptor should appear in the lists of input and output devices. Then you just need to select it.
The instuctions for midiox should tell you exactly how to select the USB midi adaptor for it's use also. And again you don't need the GR-1 connected at that point.

If you know someone with one of those little Casio or Yamaha keyboards, many had midi outputs, and you could use that to test things before heading over to check out the GR-1. I would expect no problems though.



Thanks megafiddle,
So I am assuming that you are referring to the "Midi 5 to USB adapter" that automatically loads the Midi Driver. To me this seems like that would have been the best way to go (see below).

Having said that, here is the funny (and a bit annoying part) which I just found out yesterday. The person selling it has a link to a web page showing the Roland GK-3 guitar pickup. That is the one I wanted. But a bit later I take a closer look at the picture and it shows a Roland GK-2A. I first emailed him asking if he was selling both. He said no, just the GR-2A. I emailed him saying I had to think about the purchase of a GK-2A. He responded and said "they are the same thing". I am thinking "Yeah right!". So I research it (thank god for google). The big difference was that GR-3 comes with a bracket for the tune-o-matic guitar bridge and the GK-2A does not have this. I have a tune-o-matic so I have decided against the deal. I find it amazing he would put that link to the GK-3 in and I am glad I took the time to look at the picture (I did not initially because I knew that GK-3 well but later I took a closer look at the small picture and noticed it looked a bit different). Just imagine if myself or someone else took the 20+ minute trek to his place only to find he misrepresented his sale. Some people would go from annoyed to very angry. So he wastes a lot of people's time including on this thread. When someone reasizes what he is doing are they going to trust his GR-1 is in as good condition as he says? Anyway, I learned a lot about Midi because of it which is good. If I had just bought a Roland GI-20 with a USB plug I would not have learned as much about Midi.

Last edited by bowlesj; 07/20/12 03:51 AM.