# Getting sounds into a MIDI controller

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 27, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-sounds-into-a-midi-controller/642269 "2012-11-27T15:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-sounds-into-a-midi-controller/642269/21 "2012-12-01T03:13:03Z")

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Well, my wife bought a beautiful Baldwin electronic piano years back that she is mostly uses, in the tradition of her family, as an expensive tchotchke stand. I don’t dare try to plug it back in for fear of breaking one of her resin horses and MLPs from McDonalds, and it only uses channel 1, but it’s paid off. Then if I get my daughter’s password for her netbook without her suspecting I fixed its defective power cable weeks ago (Funny how Toshiba has always used that thick pin–the new cable is from a Toshiba laptop from 1986) so I can install some MIDI software and a USB-MIDI adapter from Sam Ash I can download a bunch of files from [http://www.kunstderfuge.com/](http://www.kunstderfuge.com/)…

Sorry, you guys just got me thinking.

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