Sacom Mini Midi Cable help

[vanpeebles]

I've been looking around at various cabling guides, but I'm a bit confused by the pin outs. Some are from the solder side, others female socket side etc making them inverted or some even upside down.

I've got a normal midi cable, with one end cut off, and a mini din connector on the way. Does anyone just have a simple photo with the two male cable plug ends and the required connections?

[samaron]

You just match pin 1 to pin 1 etc. Direct connections, no crossed pins.

[vanpeebles]

Sadly the cable I have isn't numbered inside the socket I'll draw up a piccy on what I'm guessing is right.

[vanpeebles]

Cable end to cable, this is my figuring out?

[samaron]

The regular DIN is correct, the mini is not. There is an image showing the pinout for a female connector on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DIN_connector It is the same for 5 and 6-pin, and as the text says, the male connector is a morror image of the female plug shown on the page.

[vanpeebles]

How about this one? 

That page says "The pin numbering for the plugs shown above is done left to right, bottom row to top row. Pin 1 will be on the lower left, and the highest pin number will be on the upper right."

[samaron]

Whoops, I were thinking the other way around.... silly me. You are right. I did double check it against the adapter I wired up a few months ago, and it is correct. My apologies!

[vanpeebles]

  So I'm good to go on that one?

[samaron]

You certainly are!

[Pinwizkid]

$15 shipped seems just a tad steep for such a small cable, but I can verify that this works:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Pin-Mini-DIN-to-Standard-MIDI-DIN-cable-for-Creative-products-/121139405194

[vanpeebles]

I saw those but the shipping is terrible. I rarely buy stuff from the US now, because the shipping is always crazy expensive.

Annoyingly I had an old Soundblaster card with a break out box years ago, and I know it came with two of those cables. No idea where they went. I'll probably find them after making my own. It's a good option though!

[vanpeebles]

My cable worked!!