Re: new midi system on a PowerMac G4-finally some success!

[Ed]

I was able, finally this morning, to set up my SVP to work with USB but
haven't yet restored my audio capabilities. There again, I'm sure my
hardware connections are wrong. And I also have my usual problems with hums.

Just for your information, I'm commenting on the previous steps I've taken
below.

in article BB6D6E6E.CBF%homeguy135@ouinon.hotmail.com, Ed at
homeguy135@ouinon.hotmail.com wrote on 8/23/03 7:17 PM:

> in article 230820030938357136%222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid, Gerry Scott-Moore
> at 222ggg@adelphia.net.invalid wrote on 8/23/03 12:38 PM:
>
>> Thought not wholly on topic, one day it will be:
>>
>> If you boot OSX, run OS 9.x in "classic environment", run a midi
>> program there (on OS 9.x), then come back to OSX and try to run a
>> native midi program there--it will not work!
>
> So I've found. In fact, I only get the modem-printer (2 port) setup in 9. X
> only allows me one port.

SVP won't work in OSX of course but it can be opened and set up there. The
modem-printer doesn't really matter, as long as it downloads the devices in
MIDI setup which it won't in 9.2.2. (It freezes the computer.)
>>
>> After this series of events you must *SHUT DOWN* the classic
>> environment to release the ports for the OSX application to access.
>> You have to re-boot in classic mode to use midi applications there, but
>> will eventually have to kill it again to access on OSX.
>
> I tried the manual setup in SVP with only moderate success. I did access a
> sort of patchbay with the 4 ports but it wasn't very helpful.

I had to set up the Unitor8 application before this would work. It gives you
the 4 ports in the setup of which I chose 1 and 2 and is pretty good about
setting up the 16 or 32 channels more or less correctly. I haven't yet tried
downloading other 32 channel files to see how they work.

I see no reason not to continue using SVP for the present but may eventually
use Logic.

Ed


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Ed

[Gerry Scott-Moore]

In article <BB70F464.CE5%egold@inr.net>, Ed <egold@inr.net> wrote:

> SVP won't work in OSX of course but it can be opened and set up there.

I'm unsure what you mean by "opened" I could not get SVP 4.22 to
operate under OSX it just craps out. I believe that was the case. I'm
not sure it matters since it communicates with hardware ports via OMS.
OMS does not work in any fashion under OSX.

> I had to set up the Unitor8 application before this would work. It gives you
> the 4 ports in the setup of which I chose 1 and 2 and is pretty good about
> setting up the 16 or 32 channels more or less correctly. I haven't yet tried
> downloading other 32 channel files to see how they work.
>
> I see no reason not to continue using SVP for the present but may eventually
> use Logic.

As long as you have a stable mode to run *something* you can take your
time with the actual migration process...

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[Edward Gold]

Gerry Scott-Moore wrote:
> In article <BB70F464.CE5%egold@inr.net>, Ed <egold@inr.net> wrote:
>
>
>>SVP won't work in OSX of course but it can be opened and set up there.
>
>
> I'm unsure what you mean by "opened" I could not get SVP 4.22 to
> operate under OSX it just craps out. I believe that was the case. I'm
> not sure it matters since it communicates with hardware ports via OMS.
> OMS does not work in any fashion under OSX.

But, I'm running SVP 4.5. On my computer, the application will open with
all it's information intact in 10.2.6 and will allow you to set it up.
It won't play though till you return to 9.2.2.
>
>
>>I had to set up the Unitor8 application before this would work. It gives you
>>the 4 ports in the setup of which I chose 1 and 2 and is pretty good about
>>setting up the 16 or 32 channels more or less correctly. I haven't yet tried
>>downloading other 32 channel files to see how they work.
>>
>>I see no reason not to continue using SVP for the present but may eventually
>>use Logic.
>
>
> As long as you have a stable mode to run *something* you can take your
> time with the actual migration process...

The one thing that's still frustrating is the fact that I can't set up
any audio so far either in SVP or anywhere else.

Ed

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[Gerry Scott-Moore]

In article <aC%2b.944$if4.598978@newshog.newsread.com>, Edward Gold
<egold@inr.net> wrote:

> But, I'm running SVP 4.5. On my computer, the application will open with
> all it's information intact in 10.2.6 and will allow you to set it up.
> It won't play though till you return to 9.2.2.

OKay then, I don't understand this, but if it doesn't work the way you
like it, good for you! :-)

> > As long as you have a stable mode to run *something* you can take your
> > time with the actual migration process...
>
> The one thing that's still frustrating is the fact that I can't set up
> any audio so far either in SVP or anywhere else.

This one was never a problem on either platform for me. Who can say why?

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