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I was at the music store today, and noticed a little Midi device box, I believe was called Pocket Midi. Apparently with this device, it is square in shape and has a midi in and out port at one end and a line in and out phono plug jack at the other.
It says that you can patch in guitar or mic(vocals) to run in sinc with your midi programs from say a keyboard and/or drum machine.
How can a phono plug line in or out convert to midi like this?
If this is so, can you explain this conversion?
Does anyone out there own one of these or understand the applications?

My interest in this stems from two issues at hand:

1/ The possibility to sinc acoustic instruments/vocals with the sinc of other midi devices like a keyboard/drum machine.

2/ A bit of a dilemma: the drum machine (zoom 234 rhythm trax) only has a midi imput. I need an output to dump the rhythm trax on a disc to save as a hard copy, and to free up more space for new percussion tracks.
I was hoping this Pocket midi unit might work, by running a patch cord from the line out, to the line in on the Pocket midi, and have the signal reroute out the Pocketmidi on a midi out port line?

Is this possible? Any opinion here is welcome Roy

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