Thanks,
Mark
Dan Mowczan wrote:
Sure.I cannot comment on the Parallel/USB converters as such, but I will explain more thoroughly.
The device I have is a Roland/ED UM-1.� It is a USB to MIDI interface manufacturered by Roland, but sold by Edirol.� Edirol is Roland Japan's USA distribution center for computer-related MIDI, audio, and video hardware.� It can be purchased from www.edirol.com, which is how I got mine.� The UM-1 is single channel, but they sell up to Quad channel MIDI interfaces, and lots of digital audio/USB hardware, and they support both platforms very well.
The device is plugged in directly to the USB bus.� I loaded a OMS driver that came with my MIDI interface so it could be recognized by OMS, a universal MIDI manager available for the Macintosh at no cost.� I downloaded my copy of OMS 2.3.7 (the latest version) by going to www.download.com, and searching for OMS in Macintosh.� OMS is a 3rd party MIDI manager that many people write software to support.� Authors write software to the OMS standard typically, and it becomes the universal interface between hardware and software.� If a MIDI interface doesn't have OMS support, its likely not well supported.
SysEx, as I referred to it, is a Macintosh version.� I am running 4.5.2, released in August of 2000. It requires OMS to be installed on the machine that it runs on, since it was written to work with no other standards.� It is a simple, generic bulk transfer program for sending and receiving SysEx data.� I have backed up my DTXpress and sent kits to it through this program.� I obtained this from a website called the "Shareware Music Machine", at
which has a ton of MIDI and music software for all platforms arranged in Categories.� You can sort by any platform you want, so just go to the Macintosh section, and search for it or look under MIDI Utilities.
That's the whole story!� Let me know if I can assist with anything else.
-Dan
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Dan Mowczan, pinball@...�
From: "Mark T. Owen"
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:45:01 -0800
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DTXpress] iMac Compatability
�Hey Dan, would you mind pointing me (us?) to the SysEx version you are using, plus any pointers on using it successfully. I had thought that the SysEx app as posted here was for PC only. (Pretend I know nothing about interfacing my G3 Powerbook with my DTXpress. )� Will any USB to parallel adapter work.(old Mac printer interface, looks the same as a midi port) These printer adapters are easy to find at any Mac dealer and not too expensive ($40-$60).
I had set this project aside when I received no response in early postings. I had asked about Mac software for saving, importing/exporting but it seemed that few, if any used Mac here...� Strange , given the prevalence of ProTools and CuBase in the recording world. Any other Mac/DTXpress people out there??-mark
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�Dan Mowczan wrote:
Not an IMac, but I use a Blue and White G3, and use a Roland USB to MIDI
interface I bought from www.edirol.com (Roland UM-1).� Haven't had any
problems to speak of.I am using OMS for the MIDI manager and SysEx to retrieve and dump kits.
-Dan
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Dan Mowczan, pinball@...> From: bwicks@...
> Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:38:00 -0000
> To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [DTXpress] iMac Compatability
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm on the verge of getting my DTXpress for practise and generally
> playing around with. I was wondering what harware / software / wires
> etc I will need to get connected with my iMac(DV). I don't anticipate
> doing programming and stuff but I would like to be able to import /
> export and save kits etc.
>
> Has anyone sucessfully mated a DTX and an iMac?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ben
>
>
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