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- From: cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk (Nick Rothwell)
- Subject: Re: MIDI Interface & Powerbook 100
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:28:58 +0000
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- >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.
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- That is probably *our* blurb; we worked with Rudy Trubitt to put the
- article together...
-
- >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.
-
- ...and it seems to have got truncated and edited so as to be misleading.
- The above is wrong; but I'm tired of posting my accounts of PowerBook/MIDI
- tests and results. Check this group a week or two back; that's how often I
- seem to post this stuff.
-
- Grr, grr, grr... Oh, Joe and Greg have posted it anyway... Good.
-
- Nick Rothwell | "Say, how many contemporary dancers
- CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | are there in this bar?"
- cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk | "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens
- cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk | and divide by two..."
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