After ten days of delay, the chap from the shop is coming over today with the new machine. He seems to think it will work. The question still remains, "If you are using MIDI with Win7, what's the brand name of your sound card?"

When I say I want to use MIDI, I mean the following:

Download MIDI files that others have put on the Internet

Manipulate them with Noteworthy Composer (a popular program here at the Mudcat)

Or compose and notate new music myself

HEAR the music and SEE the notes for it.

Use Noteworthy to edit them: change key, change time, write new parts, or print

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that said, thanks Grishka, John and ripov for the info about sound cards and MIDI to USB adapters.

I do want to use my small, old-fashioned five-pin MusicStar keyboard. It seems to be the only music keyboard on the market that fits on a desk. (There's still a market for them on Ebay.)
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