Awesome. Both responses. Yeah..seems like I was confused about what midi is and does, but this forum has helped tremendously! I will try and do the audio out thing. As I understand it now midi is just raw data. We assign it to sounds.
So I will attempt to direct in through my reciever.
..I have the soundblaster x-fi thing:
PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio - Xtreme Fidelity for your music and movies
optical to my reciever. Prolly shouldn't be too dificult.. I think I can make the optical an input from an output by clicking it.
They make mixers with an optical out?