I can't help but realize the irony in all of this.
When I was 13, in 1988, my father and I saved up and bought me probably the first midi (1 in, 1 out) interface for an old 286 computer of mine. I had Cakewalk version 1.0. The interface was something like $400 (it cost almost as much as the computer), and I saved all of my data on those huge 5.5 inch floppies. Quantize was a newer function then, I believe, and I was using a Yamaha DX 11 (which I never did learn how to program) as my only synth.
And I thought I was cutting edge. At least for the home user. Now, nearly twenty years later, I haven't advanced much, and I find myself taking advice to swap cables to record midi data. What is this, 1990????
Lol. Thank you, Doc and Mr. O, for the advice. I am likely going to pick up a 2x2 midi interface this week, so I can avoid the swapping cable problem.
You think that you have heard the last of me, but I am very good at surfacing with new questions. Now that I know both of you have good graces, I will attempt to exhaust them every time I need to.
Till next time...
--Hank