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- Subject: PowerBook and MIDI BS
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- From: ibhan@husc8.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:55:14 GMT
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- I can't really stress too much that there has been a great deal of
- misinformation in the music community about PowerBooks and MIDI. I'll
- first say what I've heard (from a wide range of sources) and then follow
- up with my experience.
-
- PowerBook 100 - supposedly, this has no problems at all with MIDI.
-
- PowerBook 140/145/170 - These have problems with MIDI, the extent of which
- varies depending on who you ask. Generally, I've heard they work fine for
- sequencing, but start choking with massive bank downloads or uploads. You
- can still send individual patches.
-
- PowerBook 16/180 - Nothing definite here. They work at least as well as
- the 140/145/170, if not better.
-
- Now my personal experience, here with the PowerBook Duo 230 (I assume the
- Duo 210 is in the same boat):
-
- The Duo 230 worked flawlessly in all MIDI tests I performed, in spite of
- Macworld's comments. I tested:
- -sequencing - both recording and playback, with lots of special stuff such
- as pitch-bend, fast beats, vector synthesis (I have a Wavestation).
- Nothing was lost.
- -Sysex dumps - mainly dumping patches in the sound banks. I did a
- massive download of everything in the WS, and then sent it back to the WS.
- No errors at all.
-
- The tests were conducted both docked and undocked. No errors in either case.
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