Midi module cable** SC-7** RS422 to serial port?

[JT64]

I have an old SC-7 module that i want to hook up with my Contura 430c to play vintage games, unfortunatly the contura lacks both midi ports and audio, just ***PC-speaker***.

The SC-7 have a mini DIN interface 8-pin (RS422?), i guess there once must been a DIN to serial RS232 cable for the SC-7?

***Seems like i missunderstood the RS422 is an older serial standard, to use on the PC side, i guess 8 pin female mini DIN is the name of the module contact***

Is it possible to get hands on such a cable or must you make it?

JT

 

[modem7]

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_SC-7, the 8 pin mini-DIN connector on the SC-7 does either RS-232C or RS-422.
My reading of http://www.synthman.com/roland/support/supplementalnotes/SUPNOTES/SERMIDI.html is that RS-232C is used when connecting to a PC, and RS-422 is used when connecting to a Mac.

 

[digger]

Hmmm... It's interesting to read about a MIDI module that can actually be hooked up directly to an RS-232 serial port.

From what I had gathered, MIDI was incompatible with RS-232 because different baud rates.

I never understood why they didn't base the MIDI standard on RS-232 in the first place, since it was so similar with it to begin with, yet different enough not to work with it.