Who To Petition About Writing A Driver?, usb driver for midisport 4 freemidi?!?! Options

[Drifta]

hello all,

I was just wondering who might be the responsible party for trying to get a freemidi compatible usb driver for the midisport 8x8 writen. I'm aware that I can use the OMS->FreeMidi setup but think that it's a bit daft. I'd like to have FreeMidi as my only midisystem b/c I'm using DigitalPerformer, b/c further developement on OMS has been stopped, and the process for making patch files for OMS that will show up in DP through FreeMidi is a total pain (not to mention not 100% reliable).

I don't know who I should start trying to contact. I've tried contacting both M-Audio and MOTU but received no response from either. I just wanted to know if there were any plans to develope anything to remedy the short coming. I'd even write the thing myself if I could get the specs for midisport, freemidi, and mac usb API.

anyone have any suggests or comments?
take care,
-Dr1f7@

[lepetitmartien]

OMS is dead for six years… FreeMIDI died with OS 9 and don't count on MOTU now to do something. M-Audio is certainly much more interested in OS X too…

OS 9 development is certainly no more on the shedule, but can you access the M-Audio data you need to eventually code a driver… I do'nt know

Now , if there's enough interest maybe it'll raise some kindness from M-audio on this (not to develop the thing, but at least to provide some input to help out).