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- From: dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell)
- Subject: Re: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100
- References: <19057@mindlink.bc.ca> <C047y7.6x0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec31.114735@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: University of Illinois School of Music
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:58:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.114735@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrjdm@calvin.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
- >In article <C047y7.6x0@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu (Andrew C. Crowell) writes:
- >> In article <19057@mindlink.bc.ca> Hugo_Jackson@mindlink.bc.ca (Hugo Jackson) writes:
- >> >Well, here's the problem, my Mac Powerbook 100 won't drive my opcode systems
- >> >inc. midi translator.
- >> >
- >> >Has anyone used a powerbook 100 to drive a midi translator, and if so, which
- >> >one was it.
- >>
- >> Hate to tell ya this, but buzz has it (according to a blurb in Electronic
- >> Musician) that _all_ Powerbook models, as well as the new Performa 600/IIvx/vi
- >> Macs, have a serial port problem when dealing with MIDI data. You just can't
- >> use them for that, as it appears to be a hardware-related problem. Supposedly
- >> Apple is working on a fix for it, though, so keep your ears peeled. As for
- >> right now, however, you just can't use that 'puter for MIDI.
- >>
- >> D.A.C. Crowell
- >> Computer Music Project/School of Music
- >> University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
- >> (dacc@cmp-rt.music.uiuc.edu)
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >This is incorrect. Maybe this should go in the FAQ.
- >
- >The 100 WILL drive MIDI just fine *if* you use the MIDI Manager. Nothing
- >else works. The 140 and 170 improve with the use of OMS. I append Nick's
- >analysis of the situation:
- >
- Okie-dokie...I was just relaying EM Magazine's analysis of the problem, coz
- I'd run across that bit of info before. Good point made though that Apple
- _needs_ to support the MIDI manager much moreso than they do now (sometimes
- when you check customer support at Apple, they don't even know what that
- piece of software _is_. Very scary.). OMS I'll admit to not knowing myself,
- though; early on when working w/ Mac systems, I got hold of an editor/lib
- for the PROteus1 made by Opcode, and it was perhaps one of the most
- ill-behaved things I had at the time. Once-bitten, twice-shy.
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- DACC.
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