MIDI keyboard setup as synthesizer
I finally got my MIDI keyboard and tried to connect it to a laptop, I happen to have a GNX Guitar Workstation therefore I didn't need to purchase a midi to usb cable. See schematics: I wanted to refresh my rusty keyboard skills, so started to look for a free software stack that I can use to produce some sound using the simplest and most CPU/ Sound Chip friendly solution that works on Windows 7. First I needed a fairly low latency synthesizer the BASSMIDI Driver fits the bill very well, but it is a sound font based synth so I needed a decent sound font: Weeds GM3 is a good one. Setup: Download and install Installer bassmididrv2.02.exe Then download the Weeds GM3 sound font uncompress and configure the driver. You need to run the configuration tool As Administrator . Click Add Select the sound fount Click Open. That is all fine, but how will I connect this to the MIDI input. There are multiple solutions to this problem, one of them is to use the MidiRouter which is a