No reason to bite your tongue, thirdharmonic.
Under OS 9, you could specify an external MIDI device as the default playback device for Quicktime. If you did, any program that used Quicktime for playback would send MIDI data to the designated external device.
When OS X came out, the OS X documentation stated that this was still possible, but it was not.
In OS X, Quicktime player will play MIDI files, but it will use its built-in General MIDI tone generator.
Regards,
PianoBench
On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:32 PM, thirdharmonic@... wrote:
My apologies, everyone. I am a Mac enthusiast and often find ways of making things work. My reasoning was based on experience. I haven't paid attention to QT's demise as I've been a busy boy. Obviously, I missed on this. I do see that it is still possible to utilize QT midi functions(ver 7), but paying the price isn't worth it.
sorry mr dumbledore, (I'm biting my tongue)
thank you George
---In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>; wrote:Good evening, everyone.This was true with OS 9 on the Mac but has not been true for many years.Regards,PianoBenchOn Oct 22, 2013, at 8:43 PM, thirdharmonic@... wrote:If you have a computer with QuickTime and a USB midi cable you could download midi files to your computer and play them on the piano. The cable is easily available at music stores.