I have Midiquest & Soundquest but haven't given them a whirl since I helped the company that was making it beta test the first OS X version. Frankly, my secret weapon for 10-20 year old midi gear is to use 10-20 year old computers for working with them. Think about it, the heydey of products like the DW-8000 saw the first really powerful computers for their time, and applications like Galaxy and the first Midi Timepiece interfaces from MOTU. I keep a PowerMac 8500 around (with a 500MHz G3 upgrade) that I use with an older MOTU Midi Timepiece A/V -the model with the Macintosh printer/modem serial port to connect to the computer. You can pick up these interfaces, and the older Midi Timepiece and Midi Timepiece II for $10 to $20 all day long on eBay, while the current USB Midi Timepiece A/V still carries a $595 pricetag. Grab a PowerMac 8500 for free and you have a really great interactive MIDI patchbay. On top of that I got the older MidiQuest for Classic Mac OS. I see that they still sell Midiquest 9 and it says it can run on either OS X or MacOS 9.2. While a PowerMac 8500 won't run 9.2, a beige G3 up through an 800 MHz G4 imac will, and those are pretty dirt-cheap and readily available on Craigslist as well. Also any of the G4 Titanium PowerBooks will boot and run MacOS 9.x very well, so there's a lot of readily available and not terribly expensive computer solutions for older MIDI gear. I found the old Galaxy Plus Editors to work well when it wasn't crashing, but it was very crash-prone, and OpCode is gone, so there's no support. The old Midi Timepieces work very well on a PowerMac, and software for them is readily and freely downloadable from MOTU. *MANUALS* for how to run that software are what is really missing, and the best documentation for using the software for the MOTU Midi Timepieces is actually a chapter in the manual for Digital Performer 4.5, which there is no PDF for that I am aware. I wouldn't mind scanning the section for the Timepiece software and posting that, if MOTU will not object. That's a project I can look into. Midiquest looks like the best modern solution to me, and I'll have to dust off my gear to give it a spin. I'd love to do a review and post it on DW8000.com, or host any independent review if anyone else takes the plunge. -Mark nicolas Carr wrote: > Hello Mark and everyone in the group > Many thanks for helping me resurrect my DW from the grave.I could not > have done it with out this web-sight battery change was a breeze with > your very simple to follow and funny directions along with all the > sounds provided are simply wonderful. > Has anyone played around with the Midiquest 10 xl patch > editor/librarian from Sound-Quest for Mac OSX? > > Peace, > Nick Carr > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Mark Barnes <Bugsi@...> > *To:* DW8000@yahoogroups.com > *Sent:* Monday, February 9, 2009 5:20:28 PM > *Subject:* Re: [DW8000] Korg MEX-8000 > > Another listmember informed me the downloads were not working from my > site, http://www.dw8000. com. <http://www.dw8000.com.> > I've corrected the problem, sorry for any confusion! (Pesky access > permissions needed to be reset after a site restore.) > > -Mark > > F.Manduca wrote: > > Thanks a lot, Pal! You are a friend! > > > > --- *Dom 8/2/09, Mark B /<Bugsi@... <mailto:Bugsi%40mac.com>>/* > ha scritto: > > > > Da: Mark B <Bugsi@... <mailto:Bugsi%40mac.com>> > > Oggetto: Re: [DW8000] Korg MEX-8000 > > A: DW8000@yahoogroups. com <mailto:DW8000%40yahoogroups.com> > > Data: Domenica 8 febbraio 2009, 22:01 > > > > That's why I created dw8000.com <http://dw8000.com>! > > > > Most of those manuals I scanned myself using an Adobe scan station with > > automatic Optical Character Recognition in scanning to PDF, so most of > > the manuals are even searchable. > > > > There are people on eBay who sell this stuff on a CD. I've checked a > > few of them, and most of them are actually selling the manuals that I > > scanned and have posted on dw8000.com for free download. > > > > I'm really glad to see people recommending the site as the best place > > for the manuals. It doesn't really cost me anything to keep the site > > up. I wish I had more time to add more content to the site, but for now > > it still has good content. > > > > -Mark > > > > Jose Pereira wrote: > > > http://www.dw8000. com/downloads. html > > <http://www.dw8000. com/downloads. html > <http://www.dw8000.com/downloads.html>> > > > > > > check this site, please. > > > Best regards. > > > Jos\ufffd. > > > Portugal > > > > > > -----Mensagem original---- - > > > De: DW8000@yahoogroups. com <mailto:DW8000% 40yahoogroups. com> > > [mailto:DW8000@ yahoogroups. com <mailto:DW8000% 40yahoogroups. com>] > > Em nome de > > > nicolascarr@ att.net <http://att.net> <mailto:nicolascarr %40att.net> > > > Enviada: sexta-feira, 30 de Janeiro de 2009 0:31 > > > Para: DW8000@yahoogroups. com <mailto:DW8000% 40yahoogroups. com> > > > Assunto: [DW8000] Korg MEX-8000 > > > > > > Hello everyone > > > first time posting on this sight > > > I just picked up a Korg MEX-8000 on ebay for my DW-8000 and am now > > > looking for a manual for it (MEX) anyone know where I can get a free > > > download? > > > I found free downloads for the DW and EX but not the MEX which is not > > > covered in the other manuals. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > Peace to all > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - > > Passa a Yahoo! Mail > > <http://us.rd. yahoo.com/ evt=52435/ *http://it. mail.yahoo. com/ > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=52435/*http://it.mail.yahoo.com/>>. > > La webmail che ti offre GRATIS spazio illimitato, antispam e messenger > > integrato. > > > > > > > >
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Re: [DW8000] Korg MEX-8000
2009-02-10 by Mark Barnes