>Hi there, Hi Lachlan, Thanks for the well thought out reply and OSX education. >>> From: johnp@... >>> Mac OS X core MIDI incorporates midi timestamping. So the >>> answer, under OS X for *any* application, is presumably yes... >>> >>> What's that? You have a PC? Oh... >>> >>> John Pitcairn >>From: Howard Wooten <hwooten@...> >>Ahhh.... Mac bias rears it's ugly head. >>You simply have an improved OMS (hopefully) built into the OS. >> >>Was OMS that great? > >Well in its hay-day...remember Opcode went out of Business which is why >it wasn't updated for years, which is why the app had some hickups with >later MacOSs etc. Naturally it didn't provide AMT but it had some good >features. Actually, I have a Mac as well as a PC, it has OMS installed... The last thing installed was Galaxy Librarian and a non-audio version of Vision. :-) >Well the great thing is that so long as Apple is in business there will >be a good Midi Solution built into the OS, rather than relying on some >3rd party who like Opcode could get taken over by Gibson (that's right >isn't it?) and therefore stop contributing to the music industry. >Think of it this way, if the CoreMidi in OSX is just OMS Carbonized then >who would use it? (well, okay ProTools ;-) ) > >Emagic and MOTU would stick to their customised midi solutions but >certainly allow its integration. >But if you look at >( http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/audio.html ) if the >description of what the Audio can do is anything to go by I don't think >they'd be skimping on the MIDI, do you? Now if multiple interfaces can >already access the same audio card at the same time with OSX [coreAudio >providing possibilities of more than 96k], hmm I wonder what that means >for MIDI apps? Interesting possibilities. > >Anyway, as I'm sure your looking forward to having a good XP solution in >the near future (and I'm hoping that you do - there's been a lot of >questions about it and for good reasons), us Mac people are likewise >excited about and looking forward to getting our hands on an OSX >compatible version of Logic and given what I've already seen of OSX it >IS exciting... I'm all for the continued developepment of the technology, but if a Commodore 64 ran the program I needed to compose music, I'd use it in the blink of an eye. :-o >(Now if only Emagic had a second spare to add in support for my Beige G3 >serial interfaces...) > >with regards, > >-- >Lachlan Deck ============================================== >From: GAmoore@... >Subject: Re: Re: GEN:Logic 5 Will It have like a Midi Time Stamping for More accurate > >>>What's that? You have a PC? Oh... >>> >> Ahhh.... Mac bias rears it's ugly head. > >Dare no one speak the name "PC" in vain? Are the Taliban taking over the >list? Thank you for the less than intelligent reply. howard