Hey all while we are all on the subject of NETWORKING our computers I had a question. I'm just trying to get my mac to talk to another mac via AUDIO-MIDI SETUP. I dont want to use anything fancy like MIDIoverLAn and all that expensive stuff. I am assuming that if I had one mac with a RAX 2 on it and another mac with LOGIC installed the LOGIC mac should be able to acess the plugins on RAX2. Right? So in AUDIO MIDI SETUP I click NETWORK and create a SESSION like your supposssed to which I guess enables both macs to talk to each other VIA midi. But it keeps wanting a PORT number??!! PORT number? whats that? Where do I get one of those? I have an IP address but thats not enough? -JAson

At 2:38 AM -0400 1/10/06, MusicGearfanatic@aol.com wrote: >Hey all while we are all on the subject of NETWORKING our computers I had a >question. I'm just trying to get my mac to talk to another mac via >AUDIO-MIDI >SETUP. I dont want to use anything fancy like MIDIoverLAn and all that >expensive stuff. I am assuming that if I had one mac with a RAX 2 on it and >another mac with LOGIC installed the LOGIC mac should be able to >acess the plugins >on RAX2. Right? Its not that easy. But you should be able to play the remote copy of RAX as if its a remote synth. > So in AUDIO MIDI SETUP I click NETWORK and create a >SESSION like your supposssed to which I guess enables both macs to >talk to each >other VIA midi. You need to do it on both Macs. > But it keeps wanting a PORT number??!! PORT number? whats >that? Where do I get one of those? I have an IP address but thats not >enough? You can just choose a port number. Make it large (in the thousands is good) just to avoid clashing with a port number that is already in use for something else. It doesn't matter much what the port number is as long as both computers involved have the same network number specified. Cheers David

I'm finding that more and more manufacturers are requiring a separate firewire port for their devices. I have a G5 dual 2.5Ghz PPC machine with stock ports and an Adaptec firewire card. Even with all of that, I now need at least one other firewire 400 port. Does anyone know of a product that would give me additional external ports each with different internal addresses? I have no more available slots so I can't add another adaptec card. Thanks Brian

On 01.10.2006, at 15:13, Brian Mikiten wrote: > I now need at least one other firewire 400 port. Does anyone know of > a product that would give me additional external ports each with > different internal addresses? I have no more available slots so I > can't add another adaptec card. 1. If you do not need all devices all the time at full speed an external Firewire hub can probably solve your problem. 2. If you want teh additional Firewire port for more audio in/outs an A/D/A converter connected to your audio interface might help. Behringer ADA8000 or Fostex VC-8 for example. ___ Peter Ostry