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for about $35 you need only the midi adaptor by Advanced Gravis. You should have an open RS-232 port in the back of your computer (7-pins + 8-pins). This is where a joystick would commonly plug in.). You only need a new sound card if the sythesized samples don't come near enough to your ideals. That is, does a violin sound something similar to a real violin? You need better software if you find your creativity limited by the number of tracks you can create, difficulty in entering notation. Cakewalk certainly has its fans. From discussion on another forum, it fails as a full-feature notation program, but jazz muscision like it for creating charts from which to practice improvisation. Band-in-Box is even easier to use for this limited purpose. For full-featured notation, you would want something like Finale or Sibelius, which cost hundreds. Both are excellent, but Finale leads the way in setting standards. What sort of purpose do you have in mind? MidiStudio is about $50, i think, and makes all sorts of sounds. It has an editiing program where the sequencing output can be tweaked graphically or numerically.
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