midi usb cable

thomasw88

Hi,

looking for a cheapo option to hook my Strymon mobius to my pc for patch editing on windows 10.

anyone got any midi - USB cable recommendations that are cheap and effective?

Cols

With midi-USB cables: buy cheap, buy twice.  The interfaces on the cheapest ones (<£10) are so poor it's unlikely they'll actually work.  An M Audio cable should work well enough and won't break the bank, I think about £25.

ecc83

Fork! That's a £400+ stomp box! Go mad and buy an interface, the Alesis i02 has MIDI I/O and gives very decent audio conversion. Plus you get a basic Cubase, no better DAW for MIDI work.

Dave.

thomasw88

ecc83 said:No

Fork! That's a £400+ stomp box! Go mad and buy an interface, the Alesis i02 has MIDI I/O and gives very decent audio conversion. Plus you get a basic Cubase, no better DAW for MIDI work.

Dave.

It's not really for recording just for patches

prowla

I've got a Yamaha one which seems OK.
Handy if you really do just want the one function.
I wish I had a more comprehensive USB-MIDI unit too...

JMP220478

not affiliated

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M-Audio-Midisport-Uno-Midi-Interface-USB-/172680023697?hash=item2834880e91:g:YnoAAOSwK6RZHI2G

i use mine with strymon timeline / axe fx midi controller 

JMP220478

there are cheaper alternatives but cant recommend as no experience with them - but at 3.25 inc delivery - worth a punt ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-to-Midi-Adapter-Cable-Converter-Interface-Piano-Music-For-Laptop-PC-Keyboard-/391728279019?hash=item5b34d32deb:g:bQAAAOSwNuxXbktN

thomasw88

i take it something l like the steinburg UR22  would do the job?

normula1

JMP220478 said:

there are cheaper alternatives but cant recommend as no experience with them - but at 3.25 inc delivery - worth a punt ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-to-Midi-Adapter-Cable-Converter-Interface-Piano-Music-For-Laptop-PC-Keyboard-/391728279019?hash=item5b34d32deb:g:bQAAAOSwNuxXbktN

A lot of the cheap MIDI interfaces don't properly support SYSEX messages or more specifically large SYSEX messages so depending on how Strymon do their patch editing you might get lucky, you might not. I use an M-Audio Midisport 2x2 for all my SYSEX based stuff.
Having said that I've also got a cheap one from Amazon that mostly works....

Roland

+1 on the midisport. You need to know that these things are working, and if there's a problem then it's somewhere else.