At 22:30 +0200 18.04.01, LucA wrote: >I'm Luca from Italy and I'm trying SD3 with a lot of interfaces (Emagic, >MOTU, Midiman, Steinberg, Yamaha, Roland). I'm wondering if someone >could tell me why Emagic is still using OMS instead of FreeMidi, Because OMS is the de-facto standard for MIDI on Mac OS. FreeMIDI is mostly used by MotU software. >why >Emagic don't support the Megawolf PCI card for serial ports, It does - by using the provided OMS driver :-) >why I must >use a program like OMS written for 68k code, with ancient drivers... >FreeMidi is not the perfect MIDI system, but it provides more velocity >and compatibility then OMS. I don't think there is much difference. >Unfortunatly it seems that the last version >of Freemidi use OMS for USB drivers. What does this tell you? That FreeMIDI is not a standard, as USB MIDI interface manufacturers only provide OMS drivers. >For Mac users this situation is >very dangerous. Why? >I'm a professional in sound design with over 50 synth/expander and SD3 >is one of my sw for working, but I have to use SD3 on oldier Mac because >OMS don't work very well on G4 500 DP (for the simpliest Apple MIDI I/F >I have to reduce the speed to 0,5 mHz!!!!), and now that SD3 is only for >PPC I think I will have a lot of problems in future. >Please Emagic, make SD3 and Logic compatible with FreeMidi, not only OMS >Any idea? >Michael? We will not do this. FreeMIDI as well as OMS will not run on Mac OS X, so they are outdated technologies. It seems you think it is not possible to use OMS (which is 68k code) together with PPC code (i.e. SoundDiver 3.0). This is not the case. If you want to work professionally, drop both OMS and FreeMIDI and use your G4 500 DP with Emagic interfaces... -- Beste Gruesse - best regards, Michael Haydn EMAGIC Soft- und Hardware GmbH SoundDiver Group Executive Logic Audio Developer Unitor8 Control Project Manager