Do Not Throw Your Serial Midi Interface, Stealth port working with 2 MTP II under Options

[cyril]

Do not throw your serial Midi interfaces.
I have the Alpha version of the MIDI driver for the Stealth port

You want to test it write to : Blanc.cyril@wanadoo.fr indicating your Midi config

Your obligatio will be to report of your test.

Already test with 2 MTI II Motu works !

[LABob]

Buried in between the lines in plain sight as usual:

The Givens:

1. OMS is history. DOES NOT WORK in OSX.
2. OMS is Necessary to Studio 5 Setup.
3. The above are at odds with each other!

YMMV -- I had one guy, Paul, tell me he ditched an older .kext file as the root user and it lit right up. Well maybe for him that was it.

For me, it was closer to home. I don't know if the following is the path of choice, but it got me to the pie so I'm gonna scarf now and draw the map later.

I plugged the Studio 5 back into the old Mac's printer port and verified it worked. OK. Plugged a Sportster modem in the new Stealth Serial port on the G4 and verified THAT works. OK. Put the Studio 5 into the Stealth Port and, Bamp! -- it's dead. Check cables. Reinstall Stealth stuff. Bamp. (Also swapped it for the gPort drivers & setup program after noticing the install read-mes are word for word identical on Stealth and gPort. Don't look now, kiddies, but they are the exact same stuff with 2 different names. Bamp.) Reinstalled 10.2.3. Bamp. Pulled out hair. Didn't help. I got squat. Nada. Zippo.

Intuition drains; ideas peter out, all-nighters come up empty; seeing 15 red and 15 green lights in my sleep, all dead. I got Cubase SX meters dancing on my imported VST 4.0 song but after 4 days, still no midi.

In desperation, I grab the Studio 5 manual. I finally internalize P.129 and realize I have to hook the Studio 5 up to OMS to set up the compatibility mode and then GET IT OUTTA THERE BEFORE OMS GRABS CONTROL OF IT AGAIN.

Like I said, this may not be the straight and narrow, but it's the only thing that WORKED out of 100 that I tried:

1. Hook up Studio 5 to old Mac.
2. Open Studio Patches Editor
3. Create empty 'sequencer' Patch.
4. Save and make current Patch
5. Open OMS Setup.
6. Create new Setup.
7. Pull Studio 5 Menu down to COMPATIBILITY MODE.
8. Set Speed to FAST
9. Check the EMULATE MIDI TIMEPIECE box.
10. Click CLEAR ALL.
11. Click SAVE.

NOW! Stop doing anything in OMS and TURN OFF the Studio 5. When you saved the Compatibility Setup you also installed it IN the Studio 5. Since you have been having as much trouble with it as I have, there is obviously SOMETHING in OMS that screws up the Compatibility Setup again before we make it OUTTA THERE! My theory is that turning off the Studio 5 here stops OMS from messing it up again. This theory is only a few notches north of conjecture, buit hey, it did work, didn't it?

Next, unplug the serial cable from the old port, put it in the G4 Stealth port, turn the Studio 5 back on, run the Stealth Midi Setup and go poke around in Audio Midi Setup like you have a hundred times already. You know the drill. Match up the "Fast" and the "Ports" (15x15) and they will look the same and the Studio 5 will still look dead. Stretch the zoomie-looking cables between devices if you want -- they are only for your enjoyment as they make no actual connections. You have created in Compatibility mode, a Studio 5 with the mind of a child -- no patches, numbers, names, etc. Core Midi and SX will do those jobs from now on. SX is where you set up the real Devices and Ports. Honest.

When you start SX and the verbose startup stuff in the bottom of the SX banner hits MIDI DEVICE MANAGER -- WHAM!! you should see green dead lights flash briefly on the Studio 5 if you are autoloading a project with any midi ports assigned.

Or just Load a project and play something quick before it changes its mind....

TADA!!

Dunno yet about reliability, etc, cause I ran off to write this, but hey, it's finally working and I hope this helps somebody.

Don't you just hate it when people nose around and whine but they never come back to share their workarounds?

Like I said, YMMV. My search through back copies of the OMS manual, scores of pages of errors, workarounds, all supposedly fixed now, convinced me of only one thing: There's a hundred ways the Studio 5LX and Stealth Port can partner up to FAIL in OSX, and there's only one way it will work.....

If you Googled in here, sorry -- this is essentially the same post you saw at Cubase Mac. After four days of agonizing, I'd put it on the front page of the New York Times if I could...

RW

This post has been edited by LABob: Sun 16 Feb 2003, 07:58