Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Yes, I had to ditch my MOTU usb MIDI interface and dig up an older Midiman 2x2 
interface and install OMS.  On top of all that I've got to reboot in OS9 to make all of 
this happen.

Here's my plea to E-MU and other companies: Support current platforms.  I know lot's 
of people using Macs to make music.  It might not be the most popular platform, but 
it's a great one and with all the beautify of OS 10's MIDI and audio features it may 
only get more popular.  E-MU isn't the only culpret.  All the big companies seem to 
share this issue.  Roland is one of the worst IMO.  If what you buy comes with 
software don't ever expect it to be updated to work with a newer system in the future.  
It wouldn't be so bad if they gave away the source code at the end of the products 
cycle so 3rd parties and users could continue to make their gear investment viable.

Mark Sottliaro

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Nick Rothwell <nick@c...> wrote:
> > The OMS tip hit the nail on the head.  In the 6 or 7 years I've been 
> > using FreeMIDI, this is the 1st time it has unsuccessfully emulated 
> > OMS.
> 
> This is an area which is far more confusing and unreliable than it
> needs to be. For example: FreeMIDI (the later versions) *don't*
> emulate OMS - that functionality was removed. Instead, it now requires
> OMS and sits on top of it. (The problem with this is that OMS's USB
> driving is not 100% reliable, so I'd actually prefer FreeMIDI at the
> hardware level.)  Whenever I build a new Mac platform for running one
> of my OasysPCI cards, FreeMIDI cannot get the OMS drivers for the
> OasysPCI loaded properly. Then a couple of days later, it just starts
> working.
> 
> If you now have it working: don't touch anything.