Blasterkey Mp3 Driver

Jun 11, 2005. After recently reformatting, I've discovered that I seem to have lost the driver & software CD that acompanies (no pun intended) my old'n'crusty Creative BlasterKeys MP3 midi keyboard. So, I visited the creative site thinking 'Gee, I'm a fool for losing that CD. Oh well, I'll just download them from the site' only. Driver for MIDI-keyboard Creative BlasterKey MP3 BK49. On this page you are offered with driver for BlasterKey MP3 BK49 MIDI-keyboard existing in our database. Icons placed on the left of file name will prompt you in which format and in what language driver download Creative BlasterKey MP3 BK49 MIDI-keyboard are.

After recently reformatting, I've discovered that I seem to have lost the driver & software CD that acompanies (no pun intended) my old'n'crusty Creative BlasterKeys MP3 midi keyboard. So, I visited the creative site thinking 'Gee, I'm a fool for losing that CD.

Oh well, I'll just download them from the site' only to discover that when Creative says 'Discontinued' they mean that all support for the product is dead - including no dowloading of old drivers for the product. I have no idea if distributing drivers and bundled applications for a hardware product is illegal. I wouldn't think that it should be because: A) I own the thing, i'm just a clutz and lost the CD. B) It's officially discontinued, so there's no loss of revenue to Creative. C) The software (I'm assuming?) would have been free to download for years while in production. However, in matters such as this, the law seldom follows logic, so if this post is illegal, I understand why it might be taken down.

Still if anyone out there as a copy of the CD that came with a Blasterkeys keyboard, and would be so kind as to sling us a copy via the net somehow, it'd be greatly appreciated.

I have an old MIDI keyboard made by Creative. It doesn't have anything other than a 'Creative' sticker on the back. There are no model numbers that I can see, so I can't find anything on google. It's a really basic controler. It has 49 keys and nothing else. No knobs, sliders or buttons.

On the left side of the keyboard there are 3 ports: MPC, MIDI OUT and JOYSTICK. Cocktail Daaru Desi Mp4 Video Download. MPC looks like the top left in this image, MIDI OUT is regular MIDI and JOYSTICK is bottom left: From what I've been able to find out, these ports were made for older soundcards and computers that had these older connections built in. I assume the keyboard also got power this way, so does anybody know how I would power it now?

There is no regular power connector and the keyboard doesn't take batteries. The keyboard looks like this except the black part at the top is only about 1 inch wide as it has no knobs. I can take pictures if anybody thinks it will help, but there's not a lot to it.

The thing is, the keyboard is not only powered by the gameport adapter, it also relies on it as the interface for the MIDI port as well. Without a genuine Creative Labs legacy PCI soundcard, chances are there would be no drivers that could make it work with anything else. If you're a hardware hacker at heart, perhaps you could cannibalize it for spare parts, but otherwise if I had that thing in my possession it would be out for recycling this week If you have your heart set on playing MIDI on your laptop then there are all sorts of Direct to USB MIDI controllers out there these days for under or around $100. Just pick one up and write off the Creative to a lesson learned in planned obsolescence. Well, if you are a hardware hacker, you might be able to research the pinout for the joystick port, kludge together a +/-5V/12V power supply, and IF (and it's a really big IF) if it has enough built in intelligence, use it as a dumb controller for a MIDI module, but not only would it probably not work at all without drivers, but you'd also stand a relatively large chance of frying a $500 sound module in the process.

Like I said, chuck it and get something modern with at least some kind of working warranty You're very welcome, Gary. Well, I decided to throw good money (albeit not much) after bad and try and get the Creative Blasterkeys keyboard we've been carting around for 20 years or so working.

And can confirm that the combination of a USB Gameport adapter (SuperJoyBox7) to power the keyboard and a MIDI to USB adapter to try and get some MIDI input do not seem to work. I have the same keyboard as the original poster, the original Blasterkeys without the controls above the keys, so it doesn't even have a power LED to acknowledge that it is receiving power. I hate throwing things away! Dazzle Dvc 170 Mac Drivers. So it's basically a pass-through connector?

I haven't got my head around this MIDI terminology yet. Why is it labelled 'MIDI Out' then?

To my mind it sounds like the MIDI signals you are generating by pressing keys should be coming 'out' of that port and going 'in' to whatever other MIDI device you connect to it. I had read the manual you linked earlier, but it didn't enlighten me much. What role would the 'MIDI module (External)' in the connectivity diagram have?

Thanks for your input. (Or is that output?). OK, lemme try and explain this using my indoor voice. 1) The keyboard is 20 years old and is NOT USB MIDI Class Compliant. 2) The ONLY interface between the keyboard and the computer is the Joystick Port. 3) The MIDI IN and OUT ports on the keyboard are design solely to communicate with other external MIDI devices (keyboards, hardware rack modules, drum machines, etc.) 4) If you'd read all the way thru the last article I linked it would explain that you are beating dead horse trying to get this puppy to run because it relies solely on a proprietary software driver written to interface ONLY with a Soundblaster 16 or Compatible Card running under Windows 95 or possibly 98. My advice is to mount it on a plaque and use it to decorate your rec room.

Either that or else give it to your nephew for parts to use in his next college credit electronics lab assignment. Either that or else hop into the wayback machine and visit 1995 and wow everyone with the state of the art of open architecture MIDI with a $2000 Pentium computer Seriously unless you have some ancient computer rotting away in your attic, the device is utterly useless to anyone except the most dedicated of hardware hackers who might be able to scavenge the keyboard switching assembly and hardwire it to a modern VA module. Or else put it up on craigslist and sell it to someone else who really doesn't know what he's getting. Hello Annihilannic, That was really helpfull. I bought this keyboard without knowing anything about it, and because of your sharing experience i can make it work, i have also some old computer. This is quite funny for me, you already made all the first way, i just have to follow the indications.

So really thank you very much, you made it all the way through, ignoring all the desperates voices trying to make you stop. This was not useless at all, i am french and i honor your will. See you during an other experiment maybe.