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PCs & Home Stereo:
So, you are listening to MIDI songs on your PC sound card with some twiddle-de-de speakers, while your home stereo system sits idle? Why not connect your PC sound card to your home stereo for much better listening. Here's all you have to do:
Your PC sound card has a stereo "audio out" jack that your PC speakers are probably connected to. You need a stereo adaptor that splits a mini stereo plug (the male end that plugs into most CD drives or "walkman" type stuff) to two seperate channel cords (Radio Shack has them). To make it easy to alway have you PC speakers on, you might need a mini plug splitter cable (one male connector splits to two female mini plug connectors). That way, you connect your PC speakers to one split and your home stereo to the other.
Get a long enough stereo extention cable (a single cable in most cases), hopefully with jack ends that will match your "aux input" or "tape in" on the back of your stereo. If the ends don't mate with your stereo, you may need an adapter to connect to your stereo.
Connect all your cables. (I never really figured out yet which is the real left or right channel corresponding to midi songs panned to 0 or 127, but, it doesn't seem to matter, as long as "left" on your PC is "left" on your stereo).
Use a MIDI player program that will allow you to set up a bunch of songs to play in sequence (there are lots available).
If you need to "hush" your PC while you listen through the stereo, and don't have a volume control on your PC speakers, you might want to make an easily accessible "switch", or plug switch that will allow you to switch between the two (my Labtec speakers have their own headphone jack that I plug the connection to my home stereo into when I want to listen through it).
But, then, if you already have a set of 90 watt PC speakers with a seperate bass boomer, you can alway try a mini plug splitter to connect another pair of PC speakers to simulate "Quad" sound! :-)
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