I am told I need an interface to connect music keyboards to computer.
I now have yamaha PSR e403 with usb and a couple of older ones with the standard round midi sockets. the two interfaces I can get second hand are:-

E-MU-0404 PCI digital audio



The E-MU 0404 features: Premium 24-bit/192kHz converters - 111dB signal-to-noise ratio A/D converters and 116dB signal-to-noise ratio D/A converters for pristine recording and playback of your tracks
Hardware-accelerated effects - over 600 standalone and E-MU Power FX VST plug-in effects with no CPU overhead
PatchMix™ DSP zero-latency hardware mixing and monitoring - with super-fl\exible patchbay - no external mixer needed
Comprehensive analog and digital I/O plus MIDI - two analog inputs, two analog outputs, optical/coaxial S/PDIF plus MIDI I/O
Compatibility with most popular audio/sequencer applications - ultra-low latency 24-bit/192kHz ASIO 2.0 and Stereo WDM drivers.
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DIGIDESIGN 442 I/O Quad Audio Interface + VSD video slave driver
Cannot find any tech details on this





Any thoughts on these would be helpful
Thankyou from Eliza.

P.S.
I dont pretend to understand all this Its like learning a new language.

Hi Guys, Just found and bought this cable for $20 NZ. I can now plug a midi in and midi out keyboard into my joy stick port on the sound card. It will handle 16 channels and as you can see the other socket will take my joystick.
I wonder if I can connect a USB Yamaha keyboard to the computer and have two playing at the same time?
I will try it out and let you know.

Hi Eliza
I'm not sure you can do that as any DAW will only handle one device at a time.
Maybe a read here would explain things a bit better.
MIDI Technical Fanatic's Brainwashing Center
Tweak's Guide to the Home and Project Studio
The top photo looks like a sound card that can handle midi and audio. The Digitech thing you definitely don't need.
You can connect 2 midi keyboards in a 'daisy chain' which is explained in the Tweakheadz guide above.
Spike

Hi Spike thanks for the advice.
I collected the Yamaha psr e403 yesterday. WOW. I am glad I took your advice.
regards,
Eliza.

My pleasure - glad to help
Cheers
Spike

Hi all,

this is an update on different music programs I have been trying out.
I have found that "Reasons" and "band in a Box" are very good to use, although I have just scratched the surface. I have now tried all the main ones except "Ableton live" will hopefully getting it in March for a try out.
regards from Eliza.