And some of the items I just don't understand what they are for. I wanted something so that I could just plug a condenser mic into my cpu. This package seems ok, but I saw a MIDI connection and on another page I saw a firewire, would you please explain this to me?
Hey Spoiled. Midi is commonly used to connect certain digital instrumstuments to a computer like a Keyboard. Check this link for a good example.
http://www.midipage.nl/uk_midi_aansl_1.html
It allows you to compose music on the computer and play it through the Keyboard, or play on the keyboard recording a musical document that you can later edit note by note or instrument by instrument depending on what "voice" you use in your composition.
Firewire is a connection for your computer similar to USB. It was developed by Apple and is popular in Musical and Video production.
It also may be possible that the "other" kit you refer to has a port that would allow you to plug in a firewaire device as a source for recording.
Be sure to determine what connection the muical kit you purchase needs to plug in to your computer. If it requires Firewire (called IEEE1394) be sure your PC has it.
The kit you linked to uses USB which is common enough.
I tried to keep this simple. Hope this helps. Good Luck.
Mike
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