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As you may know, at the end of this month, Apple with launch MacOS X, the new MacOS.
Did you notice that no announcements was made about music making with this OS. OMS, a vital element for midi communication IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH macOS X, and is no longer developped. No replacement was even announced! This mean NO MIDI (compatible with existing applications) on mac OS X. Audio drivers will need to be rewritten to work in OSX, and reports show that the system sound interface (Sound manager) was not improved, or is even worse than the actual version.... It sounds like Apple completely forgets its musician customers base! -itunes is a kind software, but it doesn't replace the needs for WORKING midi and audio application- SHOULD WE BUY A PC TO MAKE MUSIC NOW ????? :-( -------------------- Prutulz
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According to various beta-testing mailing-list of major editors (Emagic, Steinberg, Native-instrument,..), programmers all say the same things:
Yes OSX seems great, but we won't develop something before Apple communicates us the standards about MIDI and Audio programming. At this time, there are no guidelines or API, and we won't waste our time and money to re-invent the wheel. So we are waiting. Considering that adapting applications to this new OS is a major work, and that Apple just said nothing to programmers at this time, it will take a while before anything work on OSX to make music. What will we do this summer, when OSX will be the only OS running on new macs. Apple always had a leadership position in the music business, but with the PC market growing every days and no softwares compatible with OSX, what are we suppose to do in the next month: throw our macs and buy a PC...:( Nobody at Apple care about the music market or what? I'm really scared :( David K. -------------------- David K.
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prutulz Mac OS X Tue 13 Mar 2001, 15:57
xfiles you're right! :-(
A friend of mine, working close... Tue 13 Mar 2001, 16:32 wfplb You are like virgins
Remember USB story
MIDI i... Wed 14 Mar 2001, 07:59 prutulz I clearly remember USB:
USB is faster, smarter, a... Wed 14 Mar 2001, 14:37 abbie Maybe FreeMIDI will save the day...
Personally I ... Wed 21 Mar 2001, 18:19 Raymund Beyer There will be a Midi solution for OS X. The guy th... Sat 24 Mar 2001, 22:08 prutulz Anyone tested OS X with Midi applications ?
Does ... Wed 28 Mar 2001, 14:46 marcmame This is not as bad as it seems.
Even when Apple w... Thu 26 Apr 2001, 22:32 soif According to this MacCentral article, writer John ... Mon 21 May 2001, 17:10 prutulz This Apple developper page annouces sessions about... Mon 21 May 2001, 17:48 Cpt Horse I dont use OS X or know anybody that does but.. my... Sat 26 May 2001, 03:39 Kaysha Looking at my OS X core systems, I can see folders... Fri 1 Jun 2001, 03:22 Kaysha Look at this:
http://developer.apple.com/audio/cor... Fri 1 Jun 2001, 03:32 prutulz thanks for the link!
it seems good !!!
Let's see... Fri 1 Jun 2001, 14:54 Kaysha Yeah thanks!
Looks like Mac OS X will also be midi... Sun 3 Jun 2001, 05:19 mezu From the maxmsp list today:
http://maccentral.macw... Thu 12 Jul 2001, 13:12 MIDImodesitt Wow, no replies for years??
anyway.. now there is... Fri 9 Dec 2005, 08:34
lepetitmartien ushhhh never awaken threads that sleep deep
An... Sat 10 Dec 2005, 05:02 |
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