I'm having difficulties to find PCB mount "MIDI" connectors by a supplier like Farnell, no search with the keyword "MIDI" succeeds. I know a MIDI connector is a DIN5 connector, but there seems to be many variations of "DIN5".
For example, do you think that a product like this is suited for standard MIDI cables (for electronic music devices)?
The image looks ok but I wonder if the "angle" of each "line hole"/pin is not a little bit different than usual MIDI devices…
Here is the datasheet.
Here is a connector that I know working for MIDI, I wonder if the one I linked is similar.
Edit: The angle of the "linear holes" seems to be very different from one item to another. Why? By the way, why is it a "linear hole" and not just a round hole like all other connectors?
Linked to 5-pin DIN socket advertised as MIDI, not the same as on my MIDI gear but not a duplicate since here I have a more precise question about the angle of the linear holes (not present in the other question).
Best Answer
While one might expect that the socket's contacts would be a round metal receptacle, there is another design that looks like a fork. The two extensions of the fork make contact with the plug's pins by contacting the pin on either side. This fork-contact has a flat profile, and during manufacture, it is inserted into the slot that you see as a "line". The sides of the fork also flex inside this slot in order to provide a spring-loaded contact with the pin from the plug.
So these "lines" (slots), and the angle they are made at, have nothing to do with the pin arrangement in the socket. Only the round hole where the pin actually enters is a factor in whether the "pins are in the right place".