Overtone Again...

 
   Hello to All:
                
                 I have noticed that the group had been somewhat 
dormant for awhile so I decided to post this message to awake you 
all, at least the moderators :)
  Anyway, first I wanted to thank Antoine Deschenes for his previous 
answer to my related enquiry and at the same time I wanted to 
apologize to him for not doing so before.
  Anyway, I have two issues I wanted to discuss. The first is 
basically just a question: 

(1)Has anyone had any experiences with any of the sounds/patches for 
the K5 that are offered/sold on ebay or would care to elaborate on 
the quality of the sounds?. The active link right now is the 
following: 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kawai-K1-K3-K4-K5-XD-5-Patches-Manuals-
More_W0QQitemZ7408738756QQcategoryZ29552QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 I figured I would ask here because the vendor could be one of the 
members of the group.
  The second question is related to Overtone. Although I now have 
and know of other options as far as editors (e.g. Midi Quest and 
Terzoid Noize) I am still interested in getting Overtone to work 
because I do have tons of sound/patches that I had already 
programmed in Overtone format and I can no longer use them because I 
am "now" having problems with Overtone. Since purchasing Overtone 
years back and acquiring many sounds for it I had abandoned the k5 
for some years and "recently" resurrected it but find myself with no 
way to get it to work with my new settup. I have concluded that 
somehow there is an apparent problem with the buffer of the K5 and 
faster computers. How did I arrive to that conclusion is as 
follows.   As I mentioned previously I a chance to try Noize and I 
was unable to use a UBS based Midi interface to talk to the K5 in 
order to upload the sounds residing in the K5. Then, when on the 
same computer I added another fairly "older" interface, this one a 
ISA based MIDIMAN interface, I was able then to talk to the K5 and 
successfully upload the patches in the K5 to Noize in order to be 
able to edit them.
 Previously also I had noticed the same type of apparent Midi 
congestion when I tried to communicate via MIDI with the K5.
 By the way, just as Antoine had mentioned in his reply one of the 
problems with Overtone is that it is a DOS based software program 
and that posses a problem , at least for me right now, in terms of 
ideas/options as to how to interface with it since most newer MIDI 
interfaces are likely to be USB based. So with that in mind, my 
question is: 
  (2)Does anyone know of and/or could recommend a fairly inexpensive 
MIDI interface with variable IRQ and port settings that would work 
in DOS and could work with Overtone?

  Thanks in advance;

metaphor