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Beginner's Electronic MIDI Setup - for DEMOS

Hey all - I've been reading a lot of threads on this site and gathered a lot of pertinent information. My desire is for a simple home studio to record MIDI and some audio into a laptop for sequencing and mixing. My budget is $2500 - I have no immediate need for mic's as I just want to lay down the music at this point.

Cheap Midi Keyboard as Controller?

I have a really crappy Casio midi keyboard, and I was wondering if I could use it as a controller for like... a plugin , or in my daw program, to say, turn on or off an effect or something.

I use plugins for live sound, and I have no way to change them in mid performance, and I dont have money to buy any midi controllers :p.

suggestions?

Midi madness in Sonar

I have a problem setting up a guitar pre/effects thingy (Zoom 9030 from 1991). I'm trying to control the Zoom with Sonar 5. Patch changes, that's all. My desktop PC with Yamaha SW1000xg interface works fine with it. But my laptop with Alesis Io2 doesn't. All it does is change the patch to nr 01 every time I stop playback. Nothing else. The MIDI light flashes ok in the Io2.