 Setup Advice Needed, midi/audio setup on emac |
 Tue 1 Nov 2005, 03:21
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I have a 700 mhz PowerPC G4 Emac with 384 mb of memory running OS X 10.2.8. A year ago I went through all sorts of hell trying to set up a simple midi and audio recording system utilizing an M Audio Audiophile USB as the interface for my midi keyboards, drum machines, etc. and for audio. It was an unending nightmare of one software wanting OSX updated, another only running in 9, no communication or one way communication at best between the Mac and the devices connected to the Audiophile.
I switched over to a Mac because I was led to believe it was easy to implement and not buggy. I have successfully set up midi sequencing on PC based system in the past. I have failed utterly with the Mac. After a year, I am again thinking of trying to make this system work. My question: Will someone please suggest to me a very simple midi sequencer that will work in OS X 10.2.8 and give me your ideas on what is possibly wrong with the communication between the computer and the peripherals connected to the Audiophile. At this point I would be satisfied to be able to do midi sequencing on the Mac, leaving the audio recording to my stand-alone digital recorder. Thank you so much for your kind thoughts. Flapper |
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Wed 2 Nov 2005, 02:39
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 14-Oct 05 From: Mankato - US Member No.: 71,243 |
Thank you all. Besides Apple, where is a good place to buy some additional memory? I bought 256 from them a couple years ago and they were helpful, but kind of expensive.
I assume I can upgrade to 10.3 with this computer & the additional memory, but it means another couple of nights of ssllllooooowww downloading, which I vividly recall when I upgraded to 10.2.8. Before I could even do that I had to download a new download program that wouldn't lose what I'd downloaded when I got disconnected in the middle of it by our miserable dial-up connection run by the phone company. It seems like an endless succession of upgrading memory and OS and then hoping the new program will install and operate correctly. I just want to use this thing for music! Keep those suggestions coming & thanks again. Flapper |
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flapper Setup Advice Needed Tue 1 Nov 2005, 03:21
Metro SE QUOTE (flapper @ Oct 31 2005, 21:21)..please ... Tue 1 Nov 2005, 15:21 Bubowski Also check out Intuem (http://www.intuem.com/main/... Tue 1 Nov 2005, 19:19 gdoubleyou 1)You barely have enough RAM to run the OS. Max ou... Tue 1 Nov 2005, 19:23 lepetitmartien Yep, 10.2.8 while it works ok for some Protools co... Wed 2 Nov 2005, 02:33 ed van otterdijk maybe it's time to spend some money. if you wa... Wed 2 Nov 2005, 11:43 flapper "maybe it's time to spend some money. if ... Thu 3 Nov 2005, 03:29 Bubowski If you really want some sequencing power you could... Thu 3 Nov 2005, 05:39 ed van otterdijk First started with MC500, Atari, last 12 years on ... Thu 3 Nov 2005, 10:45 mortalengines I have heard that the emac wasn't really a goo... Fri 4 Nov 2005, 03:01 flapper Based on all your suggestions, for starters I... Fri 4 Nov 2005, 04:38 Bubowski Hey Flapper,
If you can already dual-boot, check ... Fri 4 Nov 2005, 08:41 Bubowski Forgot to mention that Vivion WILL NOT work under ... Fri 4 Nov 2005, 08:42
flapper Thank you Bubowski. I'll look into opcodeuser... Sat 5 Nov 2005, 04:03 |
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